![]() ![]() Despite being unable to attend plays, he grows fascinated by La Berma, a mythical Parisian actress. ![]() ![]() He prefers aesthetic beauty to wants (such as gadgets) or amusement (e.g., puppet shows). Marcel is a sensitive youngster who enjoys reading and has an early interest in aesthetics. He struggles with nervous disorders and yearns for his mother’s nightly comforting kiss. The book’s narrator is a portrayal of Marcel Proust, although being distinctly different from the author in several respects. In telling the story of ‘Swann’s Way’, the narrator introduces many memorable characters, including Charles Swann, who forms an uneasy alliance with the prostitute Odette Gilberte Swann, their daughter, with whom young Marcel falls in love the aristocratic Guermantes family, which includes the immoral Baron de Charlus and his nephew Robert de Saint-Loup and Albertine, to whom Marcel develops a passionate attachment. ![]()
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