The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, v. 3)—Marcel Proust

Let's not take that path, Marcel

First posted September 12, 2009

If Swann's Way describes a marriage in which the man steps down from his “rightful place” in society and gives himself entirely to a woman whose faults he will not see, The Guermantes Way takes us down a very different path. If I may borrow from a previous work, I would say that Proust has made us this offer:

Therefore…