Download or read book The Guermantes Way written by Marcel Proust and published by Historic England Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.