The Guermantes Way: His Remembrance of Things Past - Softcover

Proust, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394705963 ISBN 13: 9780394705965

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1970

Synopsis

The â Guermantes Way,â in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantesâ s chÃteau near Combray. It also represents the narratorâ s passage into the rarefied â social kaleidoscopeâ of the Guermantesâ s Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantesâ s drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.

For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartinâ s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffâ s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of à la recherchà du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la PlÃiade in 1989).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Modern Library of the World's
Best Books

In Search of Lost Time
Volume I
Swann's Way
Volume II
Within a Budding Grove
Volume III
The Guermantes Way
Volume IV
Sodom and Gomorrah
Volume V
The Captive
The Fugitive
Volume VI
Time Regained
&
A Guide to Proust

About the Author:

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0394705963
• ISBN 13: 9780394705965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 425