If you're seeking not just a story, but an experience that marries deep psychological insight with poetic prose, Proust's masterpiece will reward you richly. The nuances of memory and the complexities of emotion are woven into passages that many describe as heartbreakingly beautiful. Nostalgia, longing, and the very essence of what it means to be human are captured with an elegance that has stood the test of time. This is reading as an art form.

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The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work. Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an early and unreliable French edition, Proust’s masterpiece has now been flawlessly translated by Terence Kilmartin in this acclaimed version.

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