Let Swann have his way

Title: Swann's Way Author: Marcel Proust Librivox Audiobook app Read by Expatriate This is the first volume of the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, a masterpiece of French literature and modernist fiction. The book explores themes of memory, time, love, jealousy, and social class, all deeply intertwined with personal experiences and psychological insight. The narrative is divided into three main parts. The first introduces the unnamed narrator's childhood in Combray, a small French town, highlighting his emotional attachment to his mother and his sensory experience of time through involuntary memory—famously illustrated by the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea. This scene has become iconic in literary history and is central to the novel’s meditation on memory. The second and longest section, "Swann in Love," focuses on Charles Swann, a cultured man of the French aristocracy, and his obsessive, emotionally turbulent relationship with Odette de Crécy. Through...