Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 - Way By Swanns
Author: Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast
Pages: 496
Language: English
Published: 2003-10-02
ISBN: 9780141180311
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One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's <i>In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's</i> is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.<br><br><i>The Way by Swann's </i>is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a <i>madeleine</i>. It contains the separate short novel, <i>A Love of Swann's</i>, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.<br><br>Since the original pre-war translation <i>Remembrance of Things Past </i>by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is this Penguin Classics edition of <i>In Search of Lost Time </i>that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.<br><br>Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris, giving himself over entirely to writing his masterpiece <i>In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu)</i>.<br><br>If you enjoyed <i>In Search Of Lost Time</i>, you might like James Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world'<br><i>Sunday Telegraph</i>
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