Are there any books that can top this feel?
Looks interesting.
Thx OP!
The second book, Within a Budding Grove, arguably can top it
Swann's Way is unironically hilarious at Swann in Love. At that point, I fully imagined Swann as George Costanza. The give-and-take between his anxieties and the reality of Odette being a hoe was enlightening yet also funny from our objective standpoint (probably because the narrator/Proust himself doesn't like Swann, which isn't utterly evident in Swann's Way but is very obvious in Within a Budding Grove and on).