Remembrance of Things Past, Vol.3: The Captive; the Fugitive; Time Regained: v. 3 (Penguin Modern Classics)

Proust, Marcel,Scott-Moncrief, C

ISBN 10: 0140059539 / ISBN 13: 9780140059533

Published by Penguin Classics, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol.3: The Captive; the Fugitive; Time Regained: v. 3 (Penguin Modern Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140059539
• ISBN 13: 9780140059533
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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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.