"Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1)" Author: [France] Marcel Proust Publisher: Yilin Press Translator: Xu Hejin

Introduction to "Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1): Swann's Way": Marcel Proust (1871-1922) occupies an extremely important position in the history of French and even world literature. He achieved a "reverse Copernican revolution" in his novel creation: the human spirit was once again placed at the center of heaven and earth; the goal of the novel became to describe the world as a reflection and distortion of the spirit. He changed the traditional concept of the novel and had a profound impact on the emergence of various new novel genres in the future.

"Remembrance of Things Past" is a landmark masterpiece and one of the most important novels in the world literary world in the 20th century. It is regarded as the pinnacle of stream-of-consciousness novels together with "Ulysses". This novel uses a fresh and lively unique artistic style, with the help of the subconscious that transcends time and space, to make the past time reappear in his writing, expressing his infinite nostalgia for old friends and past events and his inconsolable melancholy.

André Maurois once said: "Proust's simple, individual and regional narratives have aroused enthusiasm all over the world. This is both the most beautiful thing in the world and the most fair phenomenon. Just as great philosophers summarize all thoughts with one idea, great novelists use one person's life and some of the most ordinary things to make everyone's life emerge in his pen."

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