Swann's Way

Du Côté de chez Swann [Swann’s Way] by Marcel Proust

“Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure” [For a long time I used to go to bed early]. The famous first line of Proust’s 8-volume novel presents the narrator as a sleeper, albeit a troubled one. Indeed, much of the first book (Combray) centers around the bedtime drama of the boy narrator who is loathe to go to sleep without his mother’s goodnight kiss. Author Proust did most of his writing in bed, at night, making the site of his childhood trauma his preferred work space.

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(English) Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. Trans. Lydia Davis. Penguin, 2004.

(French) Proust, Marcel. Du Côté de chez Swann [Swann’s Way]. Gallimard, 1988.