Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2: The Guermantes Way / Cities of the Plain - Hardcover

Marcel Proust

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394506456 ISBN 13: 9780394506456

Publisher: Random House, 1981

Synopsis

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 of redemption for a sober and secular age. Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.

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Review:

Before his death in 1922, Marcel Proust accomplished the monumental feat of recording Remembrance of Things Past, a fifteen-volume literary history, much of which was based upon his own adventures and minute observations. The Guermantes Way is an installation in this collection and recounts, among other things, his childhood in Combray and the relevance of grasping the importance of particular events and people from his past in his development as a writer. Although autobiographical, Proust employs suspense and the observation of minutiae to illustrate our own subjective existence.

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Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0394506456
• ISBN 13: 9780394506456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1197