Swann's Way ' (Du côté de chez Swann) is the first volume of the work of Marcel Proust in search of lost time (À la recherche du temps perdu). Several publishers refused to publish this book, which eventually will be published at the author's expense, in 1913, by the editor Bernard Grasset. In 1919, the Publisher Gallimard, published a further revised and corrected version from Proust. All the Recherche volumes are characterized by recurring themes, time and memory, so the tale from the author