Swann's Way by Marcel Proust audiobook.

Genre: drama

Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time, invites listeners into a richly detailed world where memory, desire, and social performance shape a life as surely as events do. From the quiet rituals of childhood in the provincial village of Combray, a sensitive narrator learns how longing can attach itself to places, habits, and especially to the approval of others. Years later, in Paris, the narrator moves at the edges of fashionable society, observing its codes and vanities with sharp tenderness. Interwoven with these recollections is the celebrated story of Charles Swann, a cultivated man drawn into an obsessive love for the enigmatic Odette de Crecy, a relationship that pulls him through salons, rumors, and self-deception. As the narrator and Swann each confront the distance between inner feeling and outward appearance, Proust transforms seemingly small moments - a taste, a phrase, a glance - into revelations about time and the self. Lyrical, psychologically precise, and often quietly comic, Swann's Way explores how we construct our identities from what we remember, what we misread, and what we cannot let go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:36:42) Chapter 02

(01:26:15) Chapter 03

(02:01:22) Chapter 04

(02:40:12) Chapter 05

(03:27:20) Chapter 06

(04:15:08) Chapter 07

(05:04:37) Chapter 08

(05:49:58) Chapter 09

(06:31:52) Chapter 10

(07:20:17) Chapter 11

(08:09:11) Chapter 12

(08:54:02) Chapter 13

(09:29:48) Chapter 14

(10:07:59) Chapter 15

(11:01:29) Chapter 16

(11:57:57) Chapter 17

(12:48:31) Chapter 18

(13:43:39) Chapter 19

(14:40:45) Chapter 20

(15:33:13) Chapter 21

(16:27:31) Chapter 22

(17:24:49) Chapter 23

(18:18:59) Chapter 24

(19:18:53) Chapter 25

(20:17:34) Chapter 26

(21:12:24) Chapter 27

(22:01:47) Chapter 28

(22:47:25) Chapter 29

(23:30:29) Chapter 30

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