Captive: Pt. 2 (Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of things past, vol.10) - Hardcover

Marcel Proust

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701110678 ISBN 13: 9780701110673

Publisher: CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1968

Synopsis

Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past , memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else has ever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences? Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminating between the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who else has produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can also make you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions nobody.

Edition details

• Publisher: CHATTO AND WINDUS
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701110678
• ISBN 13: 9780701110673
• Binding: Hardcover