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Analyzing 'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust

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novelist is renowned for his complex works and long, introspective sentences. Proust was more interested in the process of art than in the commercial acceptance of the art.  He was dedicated to breaking the rules of nineteenth-century literary convention whenever possible, so that he could indulge in uninhibited artistic freedom. This is evident in his psychological narrative,  "Swanns Way," which was part of his autobiographical collection entitled Remembrance of Things Past. Years before Sigmund Freuds published forays into psychoanalysis and dream interpretation, Marcel Proust was  probing the innermost workings of the human mind. Much of Marcel Prousts early childhood, particularly his lifelong emotional attachment to his mother, is remembered in "Swanns Way." The recurring  theme of being unable to sleep at night is immediately addressed in the storys opening passage: "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when  I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say to myself: Im falling asleep. And half an hour  later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would make as if to put away the book which I imagined was still in  my hands, and to blow out the light; I had gone on thinking, while I was asleep, about what I had just been reading, but these thoughts had taken a  rather peculiar turn... This impression would persist for some moments after I awoke... it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a  reincarnate spirit; the subject of my book would separate itself from me, leaving me free to apply myself or not; and at the same time my sight would return and