À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

Marcel Proust

Within a Budding Grove is the second volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The narrator moves from Parisian salons and the circle of Swann and Gilberte to a seaside stay in Balbec, where he observes the painter Elstir and a group of young girls, including Albertine. A coming-of-age novel about desire, friendship, art, perception and imagination.