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Thursday, August 20th, 2009

“Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis

Barnes and Noble Review:
Swann’s Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust’s seven-volume magnum opus À la recherche du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past. Following the narrator’s opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature’s most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a “decoction of lime-flowers,” [...]

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