Description

In this opening amount of Proust's great novel, the narrator appears in the beginning to be starting a reasonably conventional life-tale. But following the prelude the narrator moves backwards instead of forwards over time, to be able to tell the tale of the romance that had occurred before their own birth. Swann 's jealous love for Odette, with the amusing antics of the Verdurins and the members of the 'small clan', supply a model of the narrator 's own love - peregrinations and associations in salon society. All Proustis good styles - artwork and memory, loss and love, time and the creative career - are within kernel type.