Translated by Lydia Davis

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading
experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth
century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new
rendering of the original French. Now Viking makes Proust's masterpiece accessible
to a whole new generation, beginning with Lydia Davis's new translation of
the first volume, Swann's Way.

Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood-a sensitive boy's
impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life
years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel
Swann's Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial
part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume
of the book that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern
age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the
human condition-Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life
in art, of the past re-created through memory.

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