Swann in Love Author:Marcel Proust Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann’s Way, the first part of Marcel Proust’s monumental cycle Remembrance of Things Past. It tells the story of man-about-town Charles Swann’s passionate, tormented love affair with the courtesan Odette de Crécy, and of its surprising outcome. Set in the degenerate demi-monde of nin... more »eteenth-century Paris as well as in the fashionable drawingrooms of the aristocracy.« less