In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive

Proust, Marcel; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D.J.

ISBN 10: 0375753117 / ISBN 13: 9780375753114

Published by Modern Library, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375753117
• ISBN 13: 9780375753114
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.

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 Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

About the Author

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.