Side of the German

The first volume of the most famous French novel of the twentieth century was published more than a hundred years ago - in November 1913. The novel was called “in the direction of Svanna”, and his author Marcel Proust then did not suspect that his brainchild would grow into the cycle “in search of lost time”, on which the writer would work until the last hours of his life. The side of the German is the third volume of the seven -volume novel by Marseille Proust. If the first book, in the direction of Svanna, tells about the childhood of the protagonist and what was before his birth, the second, “under the canopy of the maiden crowned with flowers,” is his adolescence, the collapse of his first love and the nucleation of the new, then “ The side of the German is a youth. The narrator, from an early age, conquered by the poetry of names, finally comprehends the difference between the name of man and this person himself, the name of the city and this city himself. He penetrates the mysterious circle, which has long, in other words, enters the society of the generic aristocracy, and as magic acquires a gift of double vision, to see ordinary, not devoid of advantages, but deprived of secrets and sometimes such funny people - and not not to lose contact with mysterious, beautiful old and life -giving poetry, hiding in their names.
The reader will have to evaluate the brilliant translation of Elena Baevskaya, who refutes the sadly established opinion that Proust is a venerable, intellectual, but boring author