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Swann's Way, Part 1

by Marcel Proust
John Rowe
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Published in 1913, Swann's Way is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, one of the major achievements of 20th-century literature. The narrator discovers that an involuntary memory triggered by some casual action, say, eating a madeleine cake or stooping to remove one's shoe, has the power to recover large areas of the past; and he sets out to resurrect his past life and the people and places that most affected him.

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  • Release date

    June 16, 2009

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792765011
      • File size: 297353 KB
      • Duration: 10:19:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this outstanding production of Proust's huge masterpiece, John Rowe's steady, even delivery captures the subtle shadings and the extended, overarching progress of the author's elaborate sentences. This long opening section operates as an overture for the novel's many symphonic threads and recreates that associative state in which vivid images from the past may be recaptured. Rowe is an excellent choice for this project: His voice, pace, and intonations express perfectly not just the elegance and subtlety of Proust's style, but also its sureness of purpose. One looks forward eagerly to the second half of this first book, with its famous novel-within-a-novel, SWANN IN LOVE, and to what promises to be an outstanding audio production of this demanding classic. D.A.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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