Introduction:  Proust and In Search of Lost Time

 

PART ONE : What Happens in Proust

Overview

Summary

Synopsis of In Search of Lost Time

 

Swann's Way

    Overture

    Combray

    Swann in Love

    Place-Names: The Name

Within a Budding Grove

    Madame Swann at Home

    Place-Names: The Place

The Guermantes Way

Cities of the Plain

The Captive

The Fugitive

Time Regained

 

PART TWO : Who's Who in Proust

List of Main Characters

Titles

Guide to Main Characters

 

PART THREE: The World of Proust

A Brief Life of Marcel Proust

Place-Names: The Places

Family

Education and Professional Life

Drugs and Sex

The Writer

Marcel Proust's Paris

Proust's Paris of the Belle Époque

Marcel Proust and French History

La Belle Époque

The Dreyfus Affair

 

Appendix

A. The Seven Novels

B. Page References

C. Page and Word Count

 

Suggestions for Further Reading

Internet Resources

Acknowledgments