Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]: (Book Center) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

by Marcel Proust

with the splendid gratuitousness of the greatest works of art.

Swann also perceived Odette in the same way and the artist also. Difference if the artist brought out of it - art.painting but Swann not. Here the passive protagonist Marcel finally eternalise her by his pen.