Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator (Signed)

Jean Findlay

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2014

About this Item

First edition, First Printing. Near fine book, in a fine DW. Signed by the author with inscription, as pictured. "Charles Scott Moncrieff (1889?1930) is best known as the inspired translator of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Written with access to his personal archive, this biography reveals Scott Moncrieff as a man of contradictions: the poetic interpreter of Proust was also a much-decorated soldier who was seriously injured in France in 1916; a convert to Catholicism, he was also a homosexual; and this sociable, well-known man of letters led a parallel life as a spy in fascist Italy.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator (Signed)
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed