Swann's Way is the first volume of seven in the series In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust first published in 1913. In Swann's Way, the narrator begins by noting, 'For a long time, I went to bed early.' He comments on the way sleep seems to alter one's surroundings, and the way Habit makes one indifferent to them. He remembers being in his room in the family's country home in Combray, while downstairs his parents entertain their friend Charles Swann, an elegant man of Jewish origin with st