Swann's Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time" ("À la recherche du temps perdu"). This seminal work is a cornerstone of modernist literature and is renowned for its exploration of memory, time, and consciousness. Swann's Way is divided into three parts, introducing readers to the narrator's reflections on his childhood and experiences in early 20th-century French society. The second part explores the character of Charles Swann, a wealthy and sophisticated man whose romantic entanglement with the courtesan Odette de Crécy becomes a focal point of the story. Proust’s use of stream-of-consciousness and his deep exploration of subjective experience and memory significantly influenced modernist literature.
