The Guermantes way

by Marcel Proust

Overview

This is the third volume of Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time. After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century. The Narrator’s family has moved to an apartment connected with the Guermantes residence. The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788827526576
Publisher:	GIANLUCA
Publication date:	12/02/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	863 KB

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Auteuil, France. In his twenties, following a year in the army, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his chronic asthma, the death of his parents, and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. From 1907 on, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on boulevard Haussmann. There he insulated himself against the distractions of city life and the effects of trees and flowers—though he loved them, they brought on his attacks of asthma. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of In Search of Lost Time.

Date of Birth:

July 10, 1871

Date of Death:

November 18, 1922

Place of Birth:

Auteuil, near Paris, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France