Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage) - Softcover

Marcel Proust

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394711831 ISBN 13: 9780394711836

Publisher: Vintage, 1982

Synopsis

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the second volume of Proust's monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain.

In C. K. Scott Moncrieff's heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory.

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About the Author

MARCEL PROUST was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, France. His seven-volume novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (known in English as In Search of Lost Time), which explores themes of memory, became one of the most famous and influential works of twentieth-century literature. Proust continued to work on the novel until his death in 1922.

From the Back Cover

Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

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The introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain—books III and IV of Marcel Proust's great masterpiece of contemporary literature, Remembrance of Things Past.

We hope that they will give you a number of interesting ideas and angles from which to approach the work, which has fascinated and enthralled readers since it was first published. This guide follows the classic Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation of the definitive French Pleiade Edition but can be used with any other version or translation. The Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation consists of three volumes published by Vintage Books and The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain are to be found in Volume II. A separate reading group guide has been prepared for each of the three volumes. More information is available at www.proustguide.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394711831
• ISBN 13: 9780394711836
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1216