Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6) - Hardcover

Marcel Proust

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713996099 ISBN 13: 9780713996098

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2002

Synopsis

In Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. A superb picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing in the Bal des têtes sequence one of Proust's most devastating set-pieces, Finding Time Again triumphantly describes the paradox of facing mortality yet overcoming it through the act of writing. As Marcel rediscovers his vocation, he realizes that he can live on by writing down the story of his own memories and of his search to recapture the past.

The Penguin Proust is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s. Under Christopher Prendergast's general editorship, these superb editions bring us a more rich, comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
(From the book-cover blurb)

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"Time Regained, the final volume of "In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature--his past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable "Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.
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).

From the Back Cover

“Proust is perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” —Edmund Wilson

Edition details

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0713996099
• ISBN 13: 9780713996098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Christopher Prendergast