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Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For May 2, Coté will read aloud from the Lucy Raitz translation of Marcel Proust’s novel Swann In Love.
Summary: Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy.
Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human beings when in the grip of desire.
Swann is a highly cultured man-about-town who is plunged into turmoil when he falls for a young woman called Odette de Crecy. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish.
The novel traces the progress of Swann’s emotions with penetrating exactitude as he encounters Odette at the regular gatherings in the salon of the Verdurins. His wilful self-delusion is both poignant and comic, and his tormented feelings play out in scenes of high comedy amongst Odette’s socially pretentious circle.
Swann in Love is part of Proust’s monumental masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, and it is also a captivating self-contained story. This new translation encapsulates the qualities that have secured Proust’s reputation and serves as a perfect introduction to his writing.
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