Yet those who take the time often emerge committed enthusiasts. The novel's length – and the complexity of sentences that sometimes sprawl over an entire page – have given it the reputation of a daunting read. The complete work ran to more than a million words, describing in minute detail both the narrator's interior life and the society around him. In November, 1913, the author paid for publication of Swann's Way himself the novelist André Gide, who was among those who had turned the book down, later told Proust he felt "a burning regret" for having rejected it.īy the time Proust died in 1922, Swann's Way was enshrined as the first, genre-changing instalment in Proust's seven-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time. One hundred years ago, French publishers were busy rejecting a wordy, novelistic treatise on childhood, memory and society by a Parisian dandy and dilettante named Marcel Proust.
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