Por donde vive Swan ; A la sombra de las muchachas en flor

The narrator of In Search of Lost Time recounts how a vocation as a writer is formed and decided when the power of sensory impression is so great that it must cross an arduous distance to become language. But the novel is not only a superb study in the psychology of perception, it is also an accurate and scathing chronicle of the Belle Époque. We offer here, in a new translation by María Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Amaya García Gallego, the first volume with the first two parts of this magnum opus, Where Swann Lives (1913) and In the Shadow of the Blooming Girls (1917), centered on the narrator's childhood and adolescence, on his first loves and all his anxieties, pleasures and disappointments.