In this novel's first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator recalls his time in Combray during an episode of involuntary memory caused by dipping a madeleine in tea.
A description of a character's vertebrae being visible through her forehead apocryphally led Andre Gide to reject this book for publication. This book opens with nearly 30 pages of the narrator describing his difficulty in falling asleep, and it gained its original title from a translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. The narrator of this novel meets the composer (*) Vinteuil and falls in love with Albertine. In this novel's first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator recalls his time in Combray during an episode of involuntary memory caused by dipping a madeleine in tea. For 10 points, name this massive novel written by Marcel Proust.
A description of a character's vertebrae being visible through her forehead apocryphally led Andre Gide to reject this book for publication.
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