Swann's Way

One of the best books for kids is Swann's Way, about a sensitive boy who has memories of his family and neighbors that are brilliantly brought back to life by the taste of a madeleine years later. Additionally, it encompasses the brief novel "e;Swann in Love,"e; an unparalleled exploration of sexual jealousy that plays a critical role in the expansive, expanding plot of In Search of Lost Time. Swann's Way, the first installment of the work that made Proust one of the finest writers of the modern era, is also a perfect depiction of a life in the arts and of the past reconstructed through memory. It is satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition.