![]() ![]() Perspective and Narrator: ‘Swann’s Way’s’ first-person narrator reflects on his youth.Tense: ‘Swann’s Way’ uses the past tense to describe events and the present tense to provide philosophical insights.Genre: Modernism, Classic, Historical and Literary Fiction.In French, ‘À la recherche du temps perdu’. ![]() ![]() Book Series Title: ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (or ‘In Remembrance of Things Past’).Book title: ‘ Swann’s Way’ (Du côté de chez).Proust’s naturally pessimistic perspective on love, which he frequently treats as an illusion rather than recognition in his writing, enables him to relate the romance’s plot with the minute attention and upside-down dramatic scale of a clinician monitoring symptoms, even using words like “disease” and “convalesce.” In ‘Swann’s Way’ a family friend of Marcel’s is depicted as being hopelessly in love with Odette de Crécy, a coquette. An unnamed narrator who is assumed to be the author tells the story of ‘Swann’s Way’. This is volume one of a seven-volume French memoir that has been translated into English and made available in several editions. ‘In Search of Lost Time’ explores the passage of time and the absence of meaning in the world as it follows the narrator’s memories of childhood and experiences into adulthood in high-society France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]()
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