Swann's Way
By Marcel Proust (translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff)
Cover: Portrait de Marcel Proust (1892), oil on canvas by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1942)
A grown man dips a cake in tea and recovers his boyhood in Combray, then the world of Charles Swann and his love for Odette. The first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a long, rich meditation on time and memory.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.