The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. 'Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century' Telegraph
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1
Summary
The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth centuryIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth.
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1 Summary
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1 Reviews
"My advice is to plunge straight into Volume 1, Swann's Way there are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives" * Daily Mail *
"One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon" * The Times *
"Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century" * Sunday Telegraph *
"As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get" * Scotsman *
"Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes... Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. Not the least of it is the book's heavenly length, so that it inevitably takes over your life for a long stretch... the experience of reading it becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing" * Independent *
"One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon" * The Times *
"Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century" * Sunday Telegraph *
"As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get" * Scotsman *
"Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes... Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. Not the least of it is the book's heavenly length, so that it inevitably takes over your life for a long stretch... the experience of reading it becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing" * Independent *
About
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.
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GOR008355457
9780099362210
009936221X
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1996-12-05
544
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