![]() ![]() Only then, as his attention wavers, does he receive an invite to the Guermantes home. ![]() de Guermantes up close, but soon loses interest as he attempts to pursue Mme. Disappointed, he rekindles his friendship with her nephew Saint-Loup, a soldier who introduces him to the salon of Mme. de Guermantes, who refuses his invitation to meet. He soon grows obsessed with the beautiful Mme. The narrator moves to an apartment neighboring the home of the aristocratic Guermantes family. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature of memory and time while illuminating the history of homosexuality in nineteenth century Europe. Written while Proust was virtually confined to his bedroom from a lifelong respiratory illness, The Guermantes Way is a story of memory, history, family, and romance from a master of Modernist literature. ![]() The Guermantes Way (1920/21) is the third volume of Marcel Proust’s seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. ![]()
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