Within A Budding Grove

  • Author: Marcel Proust
  • Publisher: Marcel Proust

Synopsis

In this episode, Swann has problems with her husband because of his former lover ,while her daughter Gilberte gradually becomes an attractive object of love to the Narrator. Then, we move from Paris to Balbec, seaside town. Here the Narrator becomes friends with the painter Elstir, who taught him to paint. The Narrator begins a path of artistic education and begins to experience various facets of sex ...