Contents

Introduction                                                                              

Proust and In Search of Lost Time                                    

PART ONE: What Happens in Proust

Overview

Summary

Synopsis

1.      Swann’s Way

Overture

Combray

Swann In Love

Place Names: The Name

2.      Within a Budding Grove

Madam Swann at Home

Place Names: The Place

3.      The Guermantes Way

4.      The Cities of the Plain

5.      The Captive

6.      The Fugitive

7.      Time Regained

PART TWO: Who’s Who in Proust

List of main characters

Titles of nobility

Guide to main characters

PART THREE: The World of Proust

A Brief Life of Marcel Proust

Place Names: The Places

Family

Education and Professional Life

Drugs and Sex

The Writer

Marcel Proust’s Paris

Map of Paris during the Belle Époque

Marcel Proust and French History

La Belle Époque

The Dreyfus Affair

Appendixes

Suggestions for further reading

Internet resources

Acknowledgements