Fiction in translation

‘Swann in Love’ is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crecy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves. A study in jealousy and t...

‘I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.’ 23-year-old Frits – office worker, daydreamer, teller of inapp...

In 1913 young second lieutenant Hofmiller discovers the terrible danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance – so begins a series of visits, motivated by pity,...

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 had taken place before his own birth. Swann’s jeal...