In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way (Paperback)

Marcel Proust

ISBN 10: 0375751548 / ISBN 13: 9780375751547

Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 1998

About this Item

Paperback. This is the first part of 'A La recherche du temps perdu', Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle and it is the most up-to-date translation available. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work.This recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small provincial backwater of Combray and his tortured love affair. The only paperback edition of the definitive translation of the first part of Marcel Proust's legendary seven-part cycle. In part one, the narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous tea-soaked madeleine; M. Swann describes his passion for Odette. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375751548
• ISBN 13: 9780375751547
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

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

Richard Howard’s translation of The Charterhouse of Parma for the Modern Library was a national bestseller. Winner of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” he lives in New York City.