Swann in Love

Written by:
Marcel Proust
Narrated by:
Neville Jason

Abridged Audiobook

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Book
1
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1
Release Date
August 1995
Duration
3 hours 57 minutes
Summary
Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann's Way, the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental cycle Remembrance of Things Past. It tells the story of man-about-town Charles Swann's passionate, tormented love affair with the courtesan Odette de Crécy, and of its surprising outcome. Set in the degenerate demi-monde of nineteenth-century Paris as well as in the fashionable drawing rooms of the aristocracy, this new audiobook vividly brings to life the descriptive genius of the original novel.
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Linda M.

Proust is notorious for his long, winding sentences and seeming lack of a point, but if you are willing to wade through his work it can be worth it. Unfortunately I could not find an audio version of "Swann in Love" that was not abridged and so this was the only one I could get. If one reads Proust's work from the point of view that he was interested in making philosophical points and observation points on people in general, rather than having an interest in plot, this is for you. I think that this can be gotten in easier ways than reading "Swann in Love". The narration was excellent. My beef with the recording was that it ended without the end being announced - I thought that I had missed something.

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