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The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past is a meditation on the nature of experience and memory, using sensory and imaginative history as guideposts on a dreamy voyage through the mysteries of time and identity.