The Guermantes Way

Name: The Guermantes Way
Author: Marcel Proust

by Marcel Proust

Third volume depicting upper-class Parisian society and social climbing of Belle Epoque

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Marcel Proust

French novelist whose monumental In Search of Lost Time is one of the longest and most celebrated novels in world literature. His exploration of memory, time, and consciousness transformed the possibilities of the novel form.

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