The first volume of the most famous French novel of the twentieth century was published more than a hundred years ago in November 1913. The novel was called “Towards Swann”, and its author Marcel Proust did not yet suspect that his brainchild would grow into a cycle “In Search of Lost Time”, on which the writer would work until the last hours of his life. "Party of the Germanths" - the third volume of the seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust . If the first book, Towards Swann, tells about the childhood of the main character and what was before his birth, the second, “Under the shadow of maidens crowned with flowers” is his adolescence, the collapse of the first love and the birth of a new one, then the “Party of the Germanths” is youth....... A storyteller, from an early age, conquered by the poetry of names, at last comprehends the difference between the name of a person and this person himself, the name of the city and this city itself ..... He enters into a mysterious circle , ............ It has long been ,. In other words, , He is a member of the Society of Family Aristocracy ,. and how to magically acquire the gift of double vision ,. The ability to see normal , Not without merit, but without secrets and sometimes such funny people - and do not lose contact with the mysterious Beautiful old and life-giving poetry , hiding in their names. The reader will appreciate the brilliant translation by Elena Baevska, which refutes the sadly well-established opinion that Proust is a respectable, intellectual, but boring author.