Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained - Softcover

Marcel Proust

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Synopsis

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the third and final volume of Proust's monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained.

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.

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The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.

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The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.

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The introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion of The Captive, The Fugitive and Time Regained—books V, VI & VII 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 Captive, The Fugitive and Time Regained are to be found in Volume III. A separate reading group guide has been prepared for each of the three volumes. More information is available at www.proustguide.com.

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ISBN 10:  0394506464 ISBN 13:  9780394506463
Publisher: Random House, 1981
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