The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time volume 3)

Proust, Marcel (translation, introduction & notes by Mark Treharne)

ISBN 10: 0713996064 / ISBN 13: 9780713996067

Published by Allen Lane - Penguin Books, London, 2002

About this Item

2002. First printing. xiii, 621ppSince the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is this Penguin edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation." Pages browning, otherwise the book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. No inscriptions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time volume 3)
• Publisher: Allen Lane - Penguin Books, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713996064
• ISBN 13: 9780713996067
• Binding: Original Black Hardcovers
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.

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 the Author

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris, giving himself over entirely to writing IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.