Swann's Way

"Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century."  -  Telegraph

As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. 

Each volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge. This edition has been edited by Christopher Predergast and translated by Lydia Davis. Also contains an introduction and notes by the translator, a preface by the editor, as well as a detailed synopsis of the book.