Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental Remembrance of Things Past. Swann's Way is the first volume in this great work of literature and powerful novel in it's own right. Graham Greene called Proust the 'greatest novelist of the 20th century', and W. Somerset Maugham called the novel the 'greatest fiction to date'. The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. The novel r