In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
by Marcel Proust
During the public rank, within the builder's grove, he was awarded the Goncourt Prize, which immediately brought fame to the author. In this second volume, In Search of Lost Time, the narrator returns from childhood memories of Swann's Way to memories of adolescence. Slowly indifferent to his daughter Swann Gilberte, the narrator visits the beach resort of Balbec with his grandmother and encounters a new object of attention - Albertina, "a girl with bright, funny eyes and plump, dull cheeks."
