Marcel Proust?s seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them ?the greatest novel ever written? and ?the greatest novel of the first half of the twentieth century.? Swann?s Way, the first volume of the Recherche and the most widely read and taught of all the volumes, is the ideal introduction to Proust?s inventive genius. This Norton Critical Edition is based on C. K. Scott Moncrieff?s translation, which introduced the English-speaking world to Proust and was published during the author?s lifetime. It is accompanied by Susanna Lee?s introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Marcel Proust was forty-two years old when Swann?s Way was published, but its foundational ideas and general shape had been evolving for decades. ?Contexts? includes a 1912 reader?s report of the manuscript...
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