Proust's "Swan's Way"

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Suggests that time and memory are the main theme of "Swan's Way", and uses examples to support this view. Examines the basic subject-object dichotomy that underscores the book and looks at how Proust viewed the wastefulness of the wealthier social classes. The paper also discusses how "Swan's Way" is largely a reflection of Proust's own thought processes.

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"Swann's Way is part narrative about the childhood of a character who resembles the author and part introspection. Although nominally a work of fiction, Les Temps Perdu comes to represent all things through careful analysis; in a way, it is a train of thought reflection of Proust's very existence to which the story itself is secondary. The author's focus on the representation of time and memory is central to the book, and underscores the somnambulistic cadence of the first volume. Proust at once tries to analyze time itself and to reconcile the objective nature of time with the function of human memory as a perceptual process of recognition and indexing."

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