Swann's Way

<b>The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation<br></b><br> Marcel Proust's <i>In Search of Lost Time</i> is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now Penguin Classics brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume <i>Swann's Way</i>.<br><p>Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann in Love an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast unfolding structure of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age--satirical skeptical confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition--<i>Swann's Way</i> also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art of the past recreated through memory. <p/></p>