The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Proust, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375753117 ISBN 13: 9780375753114

Publisher: Modern Library, 1999

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 this title

From the Back Cover:

“As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest novel of our century.” -- Allan Massie, Scotsman

“The best reading version yet.” -- The Times

From the Inside Flap:

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375753117
• ISBN 13: 9780375753114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 992