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Smk Books Swann by Marcel Proust
Begun in 1909 finished just before Prousts death in 1922 many of the novels ideas motifs and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Prousts unfinished novel Jean Santeuil and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story Contre SainteBeuve. His novel has had a pervasive influence on twentiethcentury literature Proust explores the themes of time space and memory but the novel is above all a condensation of innumerable literary structural stylistic and thematic possibilities.show more