Un pere, sa fille. Tout les sépare, tout les rapproche. Quelques jours avant son mariage, Julia reçoit un appel téléphonique du secrétaire particulier de son pere:
Sensation, Sensation: Archäologen haben in einem Geheimfach in Marc-Uwes Schreibtisch neue Geschichten vom Känguru und seinem Kleinkünstler gefunden! Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Känguru-Chroniken.
Lire A la recherche du temps perdu, c'est vivre une seconde vie, c'est entrer dans une féérie ou le temps et l'espace se confondent et renouvellent le miracle d'un éternel présent.
In Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. A superb picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing in the Bal des tetes sequence...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships...
In this fourth volume, Proust's novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love - male and female - and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it.
The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons.
The Prisoner and Fugitive fulfill Swann's much earlier warning to Marcel - 'Though the subjenction of the woman may briefly allay the jealously of the man, it eventually makes it even more demanding' - as Marcel and Albertine are locked...
The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine.