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stevo67 's review for:
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
Wow, they don’t write books like this anymore! The melancholic reveries of memory are teased out over hundreds of pages into a beautiful tapestry. Though the story is long you become lost in its rhythms and cadences. At heart it is the story of a man remembering his childhood and a near neighbour Swann. But it so wonderfully evokes the society of the time. Poor Swann falls gradually madly in love with Odette. There are whole chapters on his jealousy and whether a gesture had been misread. Later we return to the narrator and his own love of Gilberte, the young daughter of Swann and Odette (who Swann married despite knowing she had slept with other men and women- only a few times...).