Review“ReadingSwann’s Waywas a rapturous experience.”—David DenbyFrom the Trade Paperback edition.Product Description'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.--VLADIMIR NABOKOVIn the overture toSwann'sWay, the themes of the whole ofIn Search of Lost Timeare introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.The final volume of a new, definitive text ofA la recherche du temps perduwas published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.