Synopsis
With his grandmother, the adolescent Marcel spends the summer in Balbec, a fashionable resort on the English Channel, and meets some of the characters who will fascinate him for much of his life: the Marquise de Villeparisis, the Baron de Charlus, Robert de St.-Loup, and the group of young girls of whom Albertine is the focus.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-07-01 | | Narrated by: | Neville Jason | | Series: | Remembrance of Things Past, 3 | | Edition Description: | Abridged |
| Size | | Height: | 5.5 in | | Width: | 4.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In spite of his independent manner, Proust has managed to inspire his novel with the prudent technical virtues of suspense and unity. These signs of formal interest are what make 'Remembrance of Things Past' a novel, rather than mere rambling reminiscence....It is held together by a method analogous to that which unifies actual human experience, repetition of events, physical and mental. "
New York Times Book Review - Rose Lee (07/05/1925)
"'Swann's Way' is not a book to read on the train, skipping over the pages with one eye on the landscape; it is a book of true originality and profundity to the point of strangeness, claiming the reader's attention and even seizing it forcibly....A novel of analysis, yes; but I know of few novels in which the analysis penetrates so deep. At times you want to cry out, 'Enough!' as to a surgeon who spares no detail in describing an operation. Yet you never say it. You keep on turning the pages feverishly in order to see further into the souls of these characters."
Le Temps - Elie-Joseph Bois (11/13/1913)
"...[I]nvokes golden memories of [Proust's] adolescence. The inexhaustible richness of his mnemonic material retards the movement of the material and dulls the interest of the reader who looks to plot for integration of episodes....Those who are not immediately repelled by the involved style, who love to come to grips with an idea, wrestle with it and make it their own, will find new delights with each re-reading."
Literary Review - A. J. Levine (08/23/1924)
"It is a picture of a society that is overcultured and neurotic, highly-strung and anemic, but interesting, human, amusing, civilized."
New York Herald Tribune (1924-1966) - Burton Rascoe (11/26/1922)
"After all is said one is forced to utter the same comment: Proust is the greatest novelist of our age."
Contemporary Authors - Angel Flores (03/16/1930)
"Marcel Proust is perhaps the greatest psychological novelist of his generation....His lucidities are hidden. He does nothing at all to help you. If you would read him the effort must be yours. He does not descend even one step to meet you. He sits in a certain splendid isolation and demands that you come to him if you will."
Clark
"...As we go forward, the wonder grows....Here Proust is at his best, surest in touch, most subtle in description and analysis, and very rarely fatiguing us by losing himself in the later undertaking."
Clark
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