- This version of Swanns Way: In Search of Lost Time includes a biography of the author Marcel Proust at the end of the book - This includes life before and after the release of the book In Swann's Way, the great arc of In Search of Lost Time begins with the narrator's efforts to recapture and understand his past, efforts set in motion by the taste of a madeleine soaked in tea. ... Here Proust's portrayal of the complexity of consciousness centers on the mind trying to understand itself. This is Volume 1 In the series