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IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: SWANN\'S WAY VOL 1 (VINTAGE CLASSICS)

84 reviews
MARCEL PROUST

VINTAGE, 1996

Fabulous Writing But Not A Novel: A Lengthy Narrative On Life
In search of Lost Time is regarded by many as a key work of modern literature, bridging ideas from the 19th and 20th centuries. Proust is often compared to Joyce and Kafka. This is revised translation of the early Moncrieff translation. That was the primary translation for the first 50 years after the first publication in French. The present work includes the later changes to the original ...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

5 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2005

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
This translation is an impressive achievement if you can get over its two main deficiencies: its overly liberal use of British slang, and slight but noticeable change in Proust's word order. Like Robert Fagles' translations of Homer, Grieve has written a rather literal translation, of a piece with the rest of Penguin's new six-volume, seven-translator Proust translation. Unlike Moncrieff, who ...

THE GUERMANTES WAY: PT. 1

14 reviews
MARCEL PROUST

CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1967

On reading Proust.
I've just finished reading The Search for Lost Time and I'd like to share a few thoughts. First, commit to reading the whole thing, all seven volumes, all million+ words. However if the commitment frightens you (as it should) first read Swann's Love, the middle part of the first volume. Second, if you commit don't be afraid to take a break and leave the book aside. I began reading it ...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

2 reviews
Marcel Proust

Viking Adult, 2004

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
For the second book of Proust's masterpiece, 'In Search of Lost Time', his attention turns away from the black and white realities of childhood to the greyer realms of adolescence, and with that, the deep, burning sensation of unrequited love. In essence, the second book is a 530-page essay on the different forms of young love, from deep obsession to airy neglect, from the savage loneliness of ...

Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6)

2 reviews
Marcel Proust

Allen Lane, 2002

again, a misleading heading
Though it bears the title of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, this is actually just the final volume, called "Finding Time Again" in this new translation. This particular book would be the British paperback edition, for the American press run has so far only given us four volumes, all of which are for sale on Amazon in a uniform style. There are small but real differences between the British ...

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

13 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2004

Immerse yourself in a rich, dense world of descriptive thought
I think people make too much of the 'difficulty' of Proust's writing, and I'm no over-educated super-literary snob, either (probably sufficiently proven in this sentence alone). Don't be scared off by the reviews claiming to have not been able to get through it. Sure you need to concentrate, hopefully without interruption, while reading Proust, but is that so bad? Isn't that a big part of what ...

Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

1 review
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2005

Helpful Footnotes
This new translations features 29 pages of helpful footnotes - limiting the need to constantly turn to Wikipedia for elucidation of Proust's many historical and literary references. The translation is easy to follow.

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)

11 reviews
Marcel Proust

Modern Library, 1999

a splendid translation and my favorite volume thus far
I am writing here of the "Penguin Proust" translation by John Sturrock. (Much of what appears on this page is misleading, with the editorial matter referring to an audiobook and many reader reviews to an earlier translation. Even first-sentence quote is not from Sturrock's translation!) Of the four Penguin Proust volumes I've read so far, this is my favorite--a wonderfully funny study of ...

The Prisoner and The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5)

5 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2003

not the book suggested by the heading!
The book shown here is actually the British paperback of volumes 5 and 6 of the new translation of In Search of Lost Time. Vol. 5 "The Prisoner" was translated by Carol Clark; vol. 6 "The Fugitive," by Peter Collier. Sadly, they do not appear to be available in hardcover in the United States, at least not yet--and I want them for my library! Nevertheless, I can confidently give this paperback ...

The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

3 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2005

Holy Grail of literature
If I had to send a single book to space martians, it would probably be Anna Karenina, the most concise powerhouse ever written. But as for sheer reading experience and linguistic ability, Proust is the grandmaster. In Search of Lost Time is the most staggering human achievement ever produced. Many of his famously long sentences contain more beauty than most people's complete bodies of literary ...

Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove (Remembrance of Things Past (Graphic Novels))

79 reviews
Marcel Proust, Stanislas Brezet

ComicsLit, 2003

Learning to swim-- my first Proust reading experience
Some time ago, I received the Vintage three-volume box set version of Remembrance as a gift. I had rashly mentioned to a friend that I wanted to read Proust and he took me at my word-- the heavy set arriving by mail and scaring me half to death. It took me a long time to get around to reading it, but I finally summoned up my courage and took down the first volume. I have many thoughts on the ...

WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE: PT. 2

22 reviews
C.K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF MARCEL PROUST

CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1967

Proust Paradox
It's my experience, reading this novel, to be perpetually grateful for the miracle of Proust, grateful, too, that he waited until his maturity to write; as someone who's spent time in writing workshops, I can only imagine the dissipation of his energies into anemic prototypes had he been persuaded to publish prematurely. Lovingly written, every word endowed with love of life and maturity's ...

Du Cote De Chez Swann (Collection Folio)

1 review
Marcel Proust

Gallimard Education, 2001

PROUST ON THE SIDE OF SWANN'S
Marcel PROUST (1871-1922) through his 'RESEARCH OF THE TIMES LOST'(published l913-27) carries us to a mental paradise. Analysis of the sub-conscious is the main characteristic of this fictionised reminiscence, for which the author has used long complex sentences. Otherwise the human characters involved and their situations are described vividly. "DU COTE'DE CHEZ SWANN" is the first book of this ...

The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics)

8 reviews
Marcel Proust

Modern Library, 1999

The Prisoner / The Fugitive
This is volume five of the superlative new translation of "In Search of Lost Time," containing the two books of the Albertine cycle, which are now titled "The Prisoner" (translated by Carol Clark) and "The Fugitive" (tr. Peter Collier). Though I haven't yet read their translations, I have found the new editions to be a wonderful improvement over those done in the 1920s by Charles Scott Moncrieff. ...

Remembrance of Things Past (vol. 1) (World Literature)
Marcel Proust

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form ...

Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4)

3 reviews
Marcel Proust

Penguin Classics, 2003

a splendid translations of my favorite volume thus far
This book is misleadingly shown under the series title. It is actually "Sodom and Gomorrah" as translated by John Sturrock, and is volume five of the new "Penguin Proust" translations of "In Search of Lost Time". Of the four Penguin Proust volumes I've read so far, this is my favorite--a wonderfully funny study of society (if not of sex). Proust specializes in transformations. We'll be ...

TIME REGAINED

11 reviews
A. MAYOR (TRANSLATOR) MARCEL PROUST

CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1970

Literary peerlessness
"Time Regained" is a dark ending to the "In Search of Lost Time" cycle, as Proust, sickly like his fictional narrator, unknowingly nears the end of his own life but senses its imminence. France, like the most of the rest of the world, is now a very different place. The Dreyfus affair is receding into the past under the shadow of the new war that has descended upon Europe, with Germany having ...

Remembrance of Things Past (two-volume set comprising all seven novels) (Volume 1 & Volume 2)
Marcel Proust

Random House, 1934

Two-volume set in slip-case. Includes (vol. 1) Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, (vol. 2) Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone, and The Past Recaptured.

The Guermantes Way

10 reviews
Marcel Proust, D. J. Enright, ...

Modern Library, 1993

High Society
In the previous two volumes of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, we have seen the young Marcel fantasize about love (in the persons of Gilberte and Albertine) and high society (in the person of the Duchesse de Guermantes). The bulk of THE GUERMANTES WAY's 819 pages is concerned with two parties involving the glitterati of fin-de-siecle Paris. At the party of the literary Mme de Villeparisis, Marcel gains ...

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