Swann’s Song

A love takes hold. Jealousy follows. Memory keeps the wound alive.

In Swann’s Song, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental In Search of Lost Time, a seemingly ordinary love affair becomes a profound exploration of desire, jealousy, memory, and the strange ways we deceive ourselves. Charles Swann, a sophisticated Parisian man who moves comfortably among the city’s aristocratic circles, becomes obsessed with Odette de Crécy, a woman he initially finds only mildly attractive. As his feelings deepen, so do his suspicions, and what begins as romance gradually turns into an exhausting struggle with jealousy and uncertainty. Proust examines how love can transform another person into an object of fantasy, how memory reshapes the past, and how time changes our understanding of the people we once believed we knew. Elegant, intimate, and psychologically penetrating, Swann’s Song is both a story of doomed love and one of the great literary studies of the human heart.

• The first volume of Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time
• A landmark exploration of love, jealousy, memory, desire, society, and time
• Introduces many of the characters, themes, and social worlds that unfold throughout Proust’s masterpiece

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A deeply intimate portrait of love and obsession, Swann’s Song shows why Proust remains one of literature’s greatest chroniclers of memory, desire, and the elusive passage of time.

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest achievements of modern literature. His writing transformed the novel through its exploration of memory, perception, consciousness, love, jealousy, art, and the passage of time. Drawing extensively on his own experiences and the social world of fin-de-siècle France, Proust created a vast literary universe whose influence can be seen in generations of writers who followed.