Un amour de swann

French language

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978-2-07-036780-1
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"Swann in Love" (French: Un amour de Swann) is a section from the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The narrative is part of Swann's Way, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time. Un amour de Swann is about the love affair between Charles Swann and Odette. The story is largely self-contained and is of novella length. For these reasons, various publishers have printed Un amour de Swann as a stand-alone volume.

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My first and, probably, last Proust!

3 stars

I had never read any of Proust's work prior to picking up this new Pushkin Press translation of Swann In Love. Being familiar with his name though and seeing that this book is a standalone novella, I thought it would be a good chance to sample 'one of the world's best novelists'. I am glad to have taken the opportunity and I can certainly understand why Proust is so acclaimed, however I can also say that Swann In Love will probably be my first and last venture into this author's work and thank goodness I didn't act upon my first idea of trying to read anything in the original French!

That said, there is a lot I appreciated about Swann In Love. The character portrayals are superb and I felt Proust perfectly captured the rarified atmosphere and intense snobbery of the Verdurin's social set. Swann himself is an awful, self-serving …

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