Marcel Marcel Proust

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Swann's Way is the first volume of the famous masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. Using the involuntary memory technique, Marcel Proust travels back in time to his childhood where the reader meets Charles Swann, a friend of the family. The memories fade and reappear again in Proust's mind this time telling the sad love story between Swann and Odette, an intriguing woman with an unusual style. What more can the narrator remember? In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

By Marcel Proust - Illustrated

Swann's Way

Victoria 

in altri tempi aveva spesso pensato con terrore che, un giorno , avrebbe finito d'essere innamorato di Odette, si era ripromesso di vigilare e , non appena si fosse accorto che il suo amore cominciava ad abbandonarlo, di aggrapparsi per trattenerlo. ma ecco che all'affievolirsi dell'amore corrispondeva simultaneamente un affievolirsi del desiderio di rimanere innamorato. infatti non si può cambiare, cioè diventare un'altra persona, finché si continua ad obbedire ai sentimenti di quella che non esiste più. [...] ma, il più delle volte, quando si sforzava, se non di rimanere in quella fase così particolare della sua vita dalla quale stava uscendo, perlomeno di averne una visione chiara finché era ancora possibile, si accorgeva che, invece, non lo era già più; avrebbe voluto contemplare, come un paesaggio che sta per svanire, quell'amore che aveva appena abbandonato

Ghee

For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture, and my aunt would never stop looking at the time, and yawning, and complaining of each of her symptoms in turn. Eulalie's ring, if it sounded from the front door at the very end of the day, when she was no longer expecting it, would almost make her ill.

Nkechi A

People who learn somne correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see in the newly discovered fact an explanation of things that have no connexion with it whatsoever

Alawander Bouston 

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it, to reach the outside, with a sort of discouragement as we hear around us always that same resonance, which is not an echo from outside but the resounding of an internal vibration.

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