Swan’s Way is the first part of In Search of Lost Time which is second best on The Greatest Books of All Time site, in the same second spot on the Le Monde’s 100 Books of The Century, it is part of Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time, and also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, last but not least, Marcel Proust is my all-time favorite – you find thousands of reviews from the aforementioned lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Swan’s Way is the first part of In Search of Lost Time which is second best on The Greatest Books of All Time site, in the same second spot on the Le Monde’s 100 Books of The Century, it is part of Bokklubben World Library’s Best 100 Books of All Time, and also one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, last but not least, Marcel Proust is my all-time favorite – you find thousands of reviews from the aforementioned lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

10 out of 10

 

A La Recherche du Temps Perdu aka In Search of Lost time is nec plus ultra, the crème de la crème https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/albertine-disparue-by-marcel-proust.html the epitome of sophistication, flamboyance, I was thinking that in the age of the mobile phone, Marcel Proust could be an antidote…

 

Alas, it is much more likely – chances could be placed in the high nineties’ percent – that the Gen Z and other new generations would just dismiss this long, but so rewarding magnum opus, because of the 4211 pages, and I am not dismissing those younger, I keep putting in those reviews the fact that I avoid long books

It was my good fortune that I started reading Marcel Proust when I was a teenager, and it was overwhelming and rather incomprehensible: I thought that the passions that the narrator, Marcel Proust himself, was describing were between himself and women, Albertine, Giselle, modeled on real life persons

 

I would be very surprised later https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/proust-by-samuel-beckett.html to find that the sublime Marcel Proust was in fact homosexual, but it is so enchanting to read him again, and get more meaning, wonder what could I make of all this complexity at the age of seventeen…

one other aspect that is enchanting is the humor, take the things that Francoise, the narrator’s maid (there is a real book by the woman who had been by his side in real life) does or says, for instance, when they are in Balbec, at the hotel, she keeps ringing the bell, when her masters are reluctant, but she says: ‘they are paid!’

 

notwithstanding that, later, once she would have made ties with the personnel, the hero and his grandmother would be unable to get a hot cup of water, or anything for that matter, because Francoise would not disturb the man responsible, during his lunch, siesta, or whatever…she could also be quite cruel

 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/un-amour-de-swan-by-marcel-proust.html I now remember the passage in which she would kill some foul, animal for lunch and she kept shouting ‘sale bete’, something like ‘dirty animal’, albeit I realize now that it is preposterous, pretentious to call her cruel, she was not

 

I am not a vegetarian, some one has to kill the poor creatures I eat, ergo, to say ‘oh, it was so vicious to kill that!’ is ridiculous’ there is The Baron de Charlus, another fantastic figure, I named a parrot I used to have after him, he is so prominent through A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, but especially in Sodome et Gomorrhe https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/sodome-et-gomorrhe-by-marcel-proust.html

 

 

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