In Search of Lost Times: Volume 1

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.