A grown man dips a cake in tea and recovers his boyhood in Combray, then the world of Charles Swann and his love for Odette. The first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a long, rich meditation on time and memory. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.