Within a Budding Grove: Pt. 1 - Softcover

Proust, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701110538 ISBN 13: 9780701110536

Publisher: CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1967

Synopsis

Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann’s Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editions—the first completely new translation of Proust’s novel since the 1920s—bring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal.

About this title

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) is considered the greatest French writer of the twentieth century. James Grieve, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, has published a translation of Proust’s Swann’s Way and two novels for young adults.

From the Back Cover

“It is marvelously about life.” —Terence Kilmartin

From the Inside Flap

First published in 1919, "Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of "In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of "Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention--Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks."
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of "A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).

Edition details

• Publisher: CHATTO AND WINDUS
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701110538
• ISBN 13: 9780701110536
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1