"A Love of Swann is a" novel in novel: it fits as a long flashback in the first of seven parts of "In Search of Lost Time", recalling the overwhelming passion, pain and exclusive of Charles Swann - alter ego ego narrator - the beautiful Odette de Grécy, demi-mondaine enigmatic, poised between the claims of sophistication and cool opportunism. Refined appearance, at once seductive and sterile wife Odette Swann when it does not love her anymore. Master psychological introspection, Proust draws the parable of the blind infatuation with their troubled relationship to the gradual shutdown, making this the paradigmatic history of any love love. True or alleged to be, because, as noted by the philosopher Ortega y Gasset, in this excursus "is inside of everything: hot points of sensuality, pigments of red-faced suspicion, custom gray, clear of fatigue life. The only thing that there is love. "
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (Paris , July 10 1871 - Paris, November 18 1922) was a French writer, remembered more for his massive work In Search of Lost Time . It is the French writer's most translated and disseminated to the world and one of the most important European literature of the twentieth century. His life unfolds in the period between the suppression of the Paris Commune and the years immediately following World War ; the transformation of French society at that time, the crisis of the aristocracy and the rise of bourgeoisie during the French Third Republic , found in the work of Proust a more detailed representation of the world then. The importance of this writer, however, is linked to the expressive power of his original writing and detailed descriptions of internal processes related to memory and human emotion, the Recherche it is a journey through time and memory that runs between vice and virtue.
Title: A Love of Swann
Original title: Du côté de chez Swann
Title: A Love of Swann
Original title: Du côté de chez Swann
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Garzanti
Publisher: Garzanti
Series: Great books
Publication: 2007 (the first in 1913)
ISBN: 8811360087
Pages: 210
Price: € 8 , 00 
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