Swann’s Way, the first installment of Marcel Proust‘s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time, was published in 1913. Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust.By Elyse Graham, Steven Hobbs, and Laura B.

(Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review), A sensitive and direct translation. the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann. Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review) A sensitive and direct translation. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review ), Indispensable. (Claire Messud, Newsday ), Indispensable. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review ) A sensitive and direct translation.

The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition- Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory. It also enfolds the short novel 'Swann in Love,' an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century.

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