In Search of Lost Time: Vol 1: Swann's Way (Vintage Edition)

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. This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff, Enright and Kilmartin translation, celebrated as the definitive english translation and a landmark in the art of translation itself.