Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust

Du côté de chez Swann

In Search of Lost Time #1

Marcel Proust with Lambert Wilson (Narrator), André Dussollier (Narrator)

17 hours, 26 minutes first pub 1913 (view editions)

fiction classics literary emotional sad slow-paced
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Ideal for the reader who savors inhabiting an intricately rendered childhood at Combray, witnessing the birth of a lifelong social obsession with the Guermantes, and tracing the ripple effects of a love affair—Swann’s—that colors both memory and identity across the slow, melancholy fabric of Proust’s opening volume.

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«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine que le dimanche matin à Combray (parce que ce jour-là je ne sortais pas avant l'heure de la messe), quand j'allais lui dire bonjour dans sa chambre, ...

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4.06
based on 5,394 reviews

Moods

reflective: 92%

challenging: 58%

emotional: 48%

relaxing: 20%

inspiring: 18%

sad: 16%

funny: 14%

mysterious: 8%

lighthearted: 7%

adventurous: 5%

hopeful: 4%

informative: 4%

tense: 3%

dark: 2%


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92% of readers chose slow
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