The Guermantes Way
by Marcel Proust
After the relative closeness of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes explores the vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life of the late nineteenth century, as the narrator finds himself in the bright, shallow world of literary and aristocratic salons. Both a nod to time, space, and culture, and a devastating satire, The Way of Herttes describes a great novel tradition that follows a young man's devotion to the ways of the world.
