The Way of Swann

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gptkbp:instanceOf novel
gptkbp:adaptation film
theatre
gptkbp:author gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkbp:character gptkb:Charles_Swann
Odette
Swann
Gilberte
gptkbp:criticalReception highly acclaimed
gptkbp:followedBy In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
gptkbp:follows gptkb:Swann's_Way
gptkbp:genre Literary fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Way of Swann
gptkbp:influenced modern literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Flaubert
gptkb:James_Joyce
Impressionism
Tolstoy
gptkbp:ISBN 978-2-07-036822-0
gptkbp:language French
gptkbp:mainCharacter Marcel
gptkbp:motif the passage of time
identity
the nature of reality
loss
nostalgia
social class
love and jealousy
desire
time and change
the complexity of relationships
art and aesthetics
the search for meaning
the role of the artist
the interplay of dreams and reality
memory and recollection
the impact of memory on identity
the madeleine
the significance of art in life
gptkbp:narrativeStyle stream of consciousness
gptkbp:notableQuote “The only paradise is paradise lost.”
gptkbp:pageCount 400
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:In_Search_of_Lost_Time
gptkbp:publishedBy 1913
gptkbp:publisher Grasset
gptkbp:setting gptkb:France
gptkb:Paris
Combray
gptkbp:style lyrical
introspective
philosophical
gptkbp:theme art
time
memory
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:C._K._Scott_Moncrieff