The Guermantes Way

22 hrs. 24 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Marcel Proust

Narrator Konstantin Korolkov

The third volume of Proust’s epic “In Search of Lost Time” was first published in 1921. Young Marcel takes his first steps with unexpected ease into the select high-society world of aristocratic Saint-Germain suburb—an environment steeped in exquisite snobbery. With surprise, he watches how shamelessly his friend Robert de Saint-Loup is being robbed and humiliated by a splendid cocotte—who only recently was a cheap “night butterfly.” Then a seriously ill, thoroughly disappointed Swann suddenly enters the scene, and everything unexpectedly turns into a furious conflict with the eccentric Baron de Charlus. Meanwhile, France is absorbed by the loud “Dreyfus Affair,” and echoes of this scandalous, noisy process—splitting the nation in two—inevitably penetrate even the secluded world of high-society drawing rooms…

1. Swann's Way (narrated by Oleg Fedorov) 2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (narrated by Maya Violina) 2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. Part One (narrated by Mikhail Nordshir) 3. The Guermantes Way 3. The Guermantes Way (narrated by Ilya Prudovsky) 4. Sodom and Gomorrah (narrated by Vyacheslav Gerasimov) 5. The Captive (narrated by Elizaveta Krupina) 7. Time Regained (narrated by Evgeny Ternovsky)