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A psychological self-portrait, a clear-eyed social study, and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Marcel Proust's monumental, encyclopedic masterpiece A la recherché du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) changed the course of 20th-century literature. Swann's Way, the first volume, introduces the novel's major themes and its unnamed narrator, an introspective man drawn, in his youth, to fashionable society, like the author himself. Through his narrator's consciousness, Proust offers readers a comprehensive portrait of the high society of Paris from the 1870s through the First World War.Swann's Way begins with the narrator's reminiscences of early childhood — including, famously, his evocative memory of eating a pastry called a madeleine — and his fascination with what seemed the separate worlds of his family's various neighbors and acquaintances. He then turns his focus to the wealthy connoisseur Charles Swann and his obsessive relationship with the vulgar but radiant courtesan Odette, chronicling in detail the milieu in which it is enacted and its unfortunate effects on him.Du côté de chez Swann first appeared in 1913. It is a bitingly satiric, often comic evocation of French society that addresses a range of philosophical questions about perception, memory, desire, art, family, and politics. On its own or as part of a larger work, it is a rich search for a reality that transcends the passage of time.

W strone Swanna Marcela Prousta to pierwsza czesc cyklu powiesciowego W poszukiwaniu straconego czasu, uznawanego za arcydzielo swiatowej literatury. (…) Proust lekcewazy sobie to, co zazwyczaj stanowi sile i urok powiesci: fabule, wiklanie przygod. Nigdy nie slizga sie po powierzchni zjawisk, zawsze drazy w glab, a introspekcja jego jest tak dramatyczna i zajmujaca, ze obchodzi sie bez zewnetrznych perypetii „bajki”. Zainteresowanie plynie nie ze zdarzen, ale z perspektyw, jakie nam Proust umie pokazac, z mysli, jaka umie przesycic najbardziej znany fakt, ktory nagle ogladamy nowymi oczami. Z drazniaca dla wielu nonszalancja nigdy nie liczy sie z czasem. Podwieczorek u pani de Villeparisis zajmuje pol tomu, obiad u ksieznej de Guermantes co najmniej tylez; ale ktoraz powiesc potrafi tak zagarnac i przykuc czytelnika, jak te genialne akty nowej komedii ludzkiej! (Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski)