The acclaimed fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation 'One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon' -The Times In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that took place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. 'A really major, significant achievement' –Guardian