Within the Shadow of Younger Women in Flower: In Search of Misplaced Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Version)

Within the Shadow of Younger Women in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of female and male adolescence, charged with the narrator’s reminiscences of Paris and the Normandy seaside. On the coronary heart of the story lie his relationships along with his grandmother and with the Swann household. As a meditation on totally different types of love,
Within the Shadow of Younger Women in Flower has no equal. Right here, Proust introduces a few of his biggest comedian innovations, from the magnificently boring M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It’s memorable as nicely for the primary look of the 2 figures who for higher or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.