Swanns Way the first volume of Marcel Prousts monumental work In Search of Lost Time is a profound meditation on memory time and desire Through richly detailed narration and introspective reflection Proust introduces the narrators recollections of childhood in Combray and recounts the story of Charles Swanns obsessive love for Odette de Crecy The novel unfolds through involuntary memorymost famously triggered by the taste of a madeleinerevealing ...