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Within a Budding Grove

Written by: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: John Rowe
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In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalising love object.

We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualised social performances to midsummer spontaneity and from Gilberte to her successor, Albertine.

In Balbec, the narrator is befriended by the painter Elstir who introduces him both to the craft of painting and to the mysterious 'little band' of girls. An artistic education is thus intricately interwoven with a journey of sexual self-discovery.

This is now the entire audiobook, not in two parts.

©2008 Marcel Proust (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction World Literature
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This volume introduces narrator’s all around infatuations . Beginning of young sweet attractions towards the sensuous women and towards the girls about to become young women. Introduction to the aristocracy & lavish lifestyle of upper class of the time in France!

Memories of one’s adolescence

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