In Search of Lost Time - Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust

'My great adventure was undoubtedly Proust. What is there left to write after that?' Virginia Woolf

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled medita- tion on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup, and introduces two figures who come to dominate the narrator's life the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.