Marcel Proust 
Swann’s Way 

‚Swann’s Way‘ was first published in 1913 and is the first volume of Proust’s ‚
In Search of Lost Time ‚, a chronicle of the Belle Époque in France (the years preceding World War One). ‚Swann’s Way‘ is a novel made up of three different sections:
Combray, where the narrator describes his childhood and illness,
Swann in Love, where we are introduced to his love for a woman named Odette, and
Place-Names: the Name, where the narrator tells us about the journeys he dreams of taking, were it not for his illness.



Proust self-published ‚Swann’s Way‘ after it was rejected by a range of publishers, who failed to see the merit of a book “describing how he tosses and turns in a bed before falling asleep”. They would later regret this decision, as ‚
In Search of Lost Time ‚ was greeted with great enthusiasm by Proust’s contemporaries and continues to be read and analyzed to this day.



‚
In Search of Lost Time ‚ is composed by seven magnificent volumes:

– Volume One: ‚Swann’s Way‘

– Volume Two: ‚In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower‘

– Volume Three: ‚The Guermantes Way‘

– Volume Four: ‚Sodom and Gomorrah‘

– Volume Five: ‚The Prisoner‘

– Volume Six: ‚The Fugitive‘

– Volume Seven: ‚Time Regained‘