De l'amour à Un amour de Swann

On November 14, 2013, the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way will be celebrated. This first volume was to become the most prominent work by Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. This essay aims at analyzing the presence of Stendhal’s love theory in this first novel, examining on the way Proust’s unfinished work, Jean Santeuil, considered here as a kind of pre-text of In Search of Lost Time.