Read by John Rowe

In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life.
Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress Odette, and their daughter Gilberte becomes
the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalising love-object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of
Balbec, from ritualised social performances to midsummer spontaneity, and from Gilberte to her successor
Albertine. In Balbec, the narrator is befriended by the painter Elstir who introduces him both to the craft
of painting and to the mysterious a.?little band' of girls. An artistic education is thus intricately
interwoven with a journey of sexual self-discovery.

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