The Guermantes Way

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time The Guermantes Way opens up a vast dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century as the narrator enters the brilliant shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time place and culture The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.