The Fugitive (Remembrance of Things Past 11)

Marcel Proust

ISBN 10: 9626342110 ISBN 13: 9789626342114

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books, 2001

Synopsis

Albertine has finally escaped her 'imprisonment' from Marcel's Paris apartment... Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect her flight has on him, but also soon he is devastated by news of an even more irreversible loss.

About this title

About the Author

Neville Jason trained at RADA where he was awarded the Diction Prize by Sir John Gielgud. He has worked with the English Stage, the Old Vic Company and the RSC as well as in film, TV and musicals. He is frequently heard on radio. As well as Remembrance of Things Past he also reads Tolstoy's War and Peace, The Castle of Otranto, Far From the Madding Crowd and Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for Naxos AudioBooks.

From AudioFile

This is the eleventh volume in Neville Jason's reading of the massive REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. Jason does a superb job with extremely difficult material. Not only does the author present us with nearly five hundred characters and countless resonances, but he does so in a convoluted prose style. Adroitly unraveling these locutions, Jason's characterizations and rendering of subtext are right on target. He delivers much of the original's subtle flavor, erring only in being perhaps a bit too aristocratic. Though British and reciting in a British idiom, he manages to convey a suitably Gallic feel. He also reveals a sense of Swann's elusive gestalt and its development. Moreover, he makes the whole thing interesting. In this volume at least, he knows who Swann is, how to play him, and how to involve us in Swann's quest. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9626342110
• ISBN 13: 9789626342114
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English