At one point, the title character of this novel recalls a fight with his parents ending in him smashing a piece of Venetian glass, but says that upon reconciling his mother did not scold him but rather kissed him.
At one point, the title character of this novel recalls a fight with his parents ending in him smashing a piece of Venetian glass, but says that upon reconciling his mother did not scold him but rather kissed him. This work was abandoned in 1899, but discovered posthumously in the cork-lined bedroom of its author, and published in its unfinished state in 1952. It's best known as the prototype for a later novel, which featured such ► characters as Odette de CrÃ©cy and Charles Swann. FTP, name this early work by Marcel Proust.
At one point, the title character of this novel recalls a fight with his parents ending in him smashing a piece of Venetian glass, but says that upon reconciling his mother did not scold him but rather kissed him.
Jean Santeuil  