DISC 1 | |||
Track | Section | Reader | Length |
1 | 01 - Overture Part 1 | Denny Sayers | 36:17 |
2 | 02 - Overture Part 2 | Denny Sayers | 49:11 |
3 | 03 - Overture Part 3 | Denny Sayers | 34:49 |
4 | 04 - Overture Part 4 | Denny Sayers | 38:30 |
5 | 05 - Combray Part 1 | Andrew Coleman | 46:42 |
6 | 06 - Combray Part 2 | Andrew Coleman | 47:20 |
7 | 07 - Combray Part 3 | Andrew Coleman | 49:05 |
8 | 08 - Combray Part 4 | Andrew Coleman | 45:01 |
9 | 09 - Combray Part 5 | Andrew Coleman | 41:30 |
10 | 10 - Combray Part 6 | Andrew Coleman | 48:06 |
11 | 11 - Combray Part 7 | Andrew Coleman | 48:34 |
12 | 12 - Combray Part 8 | Andrew Coleman | 44:32 |
13 | 13 - Combray Part 9 | Andrew Coleman | 35:25 |
14 | 14 - Combray Part 10 | Andrew Coleman | 37:48 |
DISC 2 | |||
Track | Section | Reader | Length |
15 | 15 - Swann in Love Part 1 | Denny Sayers | 53:15 |
16 | 16 - Swann in Love Part 2 | Denny Sayers | 56:06 |
17 | 17 - Swann in Love Part 3 | Denny Sayers | 50:16 |
18 | 18 - Swann in Love Part 4 | Denny Sayers | 54:48 |
19 | 19 - Swann in Love Part 5 | Denny Sayers | 56:46 |
20 | 20 - Swann in Love Part 6 | Denny Sayers | 52:11 |
21 | 21 - Swann in Love Part 7 | Denny Sayers | 53:59 |
22 | 22 - Swann in Love Part 8 | Denny Sayers | 56:58 |
23 | 23 - Swann in Love Part 9 | Denny Sayers | 53:51 |
24 | 24 - Swann in Love Part 10 | Denny Sayers | 59:33 |
25 | 25 - Swann in Love Part 11 | Denny Sayers | 58:25 |
26 | 26 - Swann in Love Part 12 | Denny Sayers | 54:31 |
27 | 27 - Swann in Love Part 13 | Denny Sayers | 49:01 |
28 | 28 - Place-Names: The Name Pa | Andrew Coleman | 45:13 |
29 | 29 - Place-Names: The Name Pa | Andrew Coleman | 42:40 |
30 | 30 - Place-Names: The Name Pa | Andrew Coleman | 47:06 |
Notes
Running Time: 24 hours 17 minutes
Read by: Andrew Coleman, Denny Sayers
Book Coordinator: Denny Sayers
Meta Coordinator: Laurie Anne Walden
Proof Listener: Arlene Joyce
Artwork
Cover: Marcel Proust in 1895 by Otto Wegener
Inset: First galley proof of Du côté de chez Swann with handwritten revision notes by Proust
Inset: Charles Haas, source of chararcter of Charles Swann
Label: Gartenweg by Claude Monet, Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Insert background: Garden of the artist at Vetheuil, date unknown, by Claude Monet
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Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time (previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past), the magnum opus by Marcel Proust. The central theme is the nature of involuntary memory and how associations color and shape feelings in a constantly unfolding manner. The story is told by a young Narrator, never named, who recounts his visits to the family’s country home in the fictional village of Combray and centers on his fascination with Charles Swann, an elegant and well-connected friend of his parents with a beautiful daughter and a difficult marriage. There is a famous moment when the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea evokes a powerful nostalgia and uncorks a stream of memories of forgotten persons, events and connections that evolve and intertwine over a long arc of time. Swann’s Way is divided into four parts: Combray I, sometimes thought of as the “Overture” and which ends with the episode of the madeleine; Combray II; Un Amour de Swann, a self-contained novella of Swann’s affair with Odette de Crecy; and Nom de pays: le nom (Names of places: the name). The volume was rejected by numerous publishers and published in 1913 at Proust’s expense. Readers and critics were initially confounded by the introspective characters, lack of much action or plot, and by the mass of memories and contemplation, but soon realized the brilliance of the work and the consummate skill of the writer. It is considered one of the five most important literary achievements of the twentieth century.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0686175924428 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175924404 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) |
Year | 1913 |
Recording | |
Read by | Denny Sayers, Andrew Coleman |
Length | 24 hours 8 minutes |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
Swann's Way
- Author: Marcel Proust
- Product Code: DB-2013
- Availability: In Stock
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