Marcel Proust
A fugitiva (Em busca do tempo perdido, #6)
Marcel Proust
Mestre da união entre prazer e conhecimento, lembrança e contemplação, beleza e dor, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) nos leva a mergulhar nas reminiscências de uma perda: a separação definitiva entre o narrador do livro e Albertine, sua amada eternamente volátil.
Não se trata, porém, de um relato lamuriento. Pois, como se lê no próprio texto, há momentos da vida em que uma espécie de beleza nasce da multiplicidade de aborrecimentos que nos assalta. Com sua capacidade de criar verdadeiras paisagens verbais, Proust transforma o sofrimento em arte, passando pela música, pela arquitetura e pela pintura. As idas e vindas mentais, a corrosão dos sentimentos, o jogo da memória e da dúvida, o luto e a esperança, são estes os elementos com os quais a prosa inigualável do autor nos embala.
Além de seu valor autônomo, este livro é uma porta de entrada, de gala, para o universo do monumental Em busca do tempo perdido, uma aventura literária talvez a maior do século XX que custou mais de catorze anos ao autor e da qual faz parte A fugitiva.
Bernardo Ajzenberg
Escritor e tradutor
Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
Marcel Proust
Albertine disparue est le dernier volume revu et remanié par Proust avant sa mort. Prévu d'abord sous le titre La Fugitive, comme le pendant de La Prisonnière, il présente la fin de l'épisode d'Albertine : sa fuite, sa mort, le chagrin, puis l'oubli. Le huis-clos de La Prisonnière s'achève, non sur l'apaisement, mais sur une multiplication des regrets et des enquêtes posthumes. Un long passage conduit Marcel à Venise, depuis toujours cité de ses désirs, maintenant univers thématique dense où nous retrouvons sa mère, Mme de Villeparisis et M. de Norpois. Il s'y livre à la fois à l'éblouissement esthétique et à de nouvelles poursuites amoureuses.
À la fin de sa vie, Proust songeait à développer ses recherches sur l'homosexualité dans un Sodome et Gomorrhe IV, un Sodome et Gomorrhe V et au-delà, avant d'en arriver au Temps retrouvé. D'où les remaniements profonds - allant jusqu'à l'étonnante suppression des deux-tiers du volume - qu'il fit subir à Albertine disparue, sans pouvoir les conduire à leur terme. Nous donnons de cette partie l'édition qui nous paraît la plus plausible, comprenant le texte initialement prévu et faisant apparaître clairement les modifications apportées dans les derniers jours.
Alla ricerca del tempo perduto
Marcel Proust
Usciti a partire dal 1913, i sette libri che compongono, in un tutto unitario, la Recherche esplorano numerosi temi: il senso del tempo, la memoria, il sogno, l’abitudine, il desiderio. E poi ancora la gelosia, il rapporto tra arte e realtà, l’interagire di rituali ed emozioni. Indimenticabili i personaggi che il lettore incontra, dal Narratore, figura dai fortissimi tratti autobiografici, alle donne da lui amate, Gilberte e Albertine, fino a Odette e Swann, Bloch, Françoise, il barone di Charlus e la duchessa di Guermantes.
A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
Marcel Proust
A la sombra de las muchachas en flor describe el itinerario de un doble aprendizaje: erotico y artistico. El papel de iniciadora corresponde a Gilberte y la historia de la pasion que ella inspira al narrador constituye la parte central del libro.
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (A la recherche du temps perdu, #2)
Marcel Proust
«Tout d'un coup, dans le petit chemin creux, je m'arrêtai touché au cœur par un doux souvenir d'enfance : je venais de reconnaître, aux feuilles découpées et brillantes qui s'avançaient sur le seuil, un buisson d'aubépines défleuries, hélas, depuis la fin du printemps. Autour de moi flottait une atmosphère d'anciens mois de Marie, d'après-midi du dimanche, de croyances, d'erreurs oubliées. J'aurais voulu la saisir. Je m'arrêtai une seconde et Andrée, avec une divination charmante, me laissa causer un instant avec les feuilles de l'arbuste. Je leur demandai des nouvelles des fleurs, ces fleurs de l'aubépine pareilles à de gaies jeunes filles étourdies, coquettes et pieuses. "Ces demoiselles sont parties depuis déjà longtemps", me disaient les feuilles.»
À propos de Baudelaire
Marcel Proust
MON CHER RIVIÈRE,
Une grave maladie m’empêche malheureusement de vous donner, je ne dis même pas une étude, mais un simple article sur Baudelaire. Tenons-nous en faute de mieux à quelques petites remarques. Je le regrette d’autant plus que je tiens Baudelaire — avec Alfred de Vigny — pour le plus grand poète du XIXe siècle.
À Sombra das Raparigas em Flor (Em Busca do Tempo Perdido, #2)
Marcel Proust
Este volume começa com o capítulo "Em torno da sra. Swann" - na verdade, uma retomada do final do volume anterior, que Proust tivera de interromper por questões de extensão.
Trata-se da oportunidade de relatar nova e surpreendente fase de personagens como Chalés Swann e dr. Cottard: o sofisticado Swann é agora marido dedicado que abraçou as ambições vulgares da mulher, Odette; o doutor tornou-se um profissional de prestígio, distante do jovem idiota recém-chegado da província no salão dos Verdurin.
Combray
Marcel Proust
A guide to "Combray", the opening section of Proust's "À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu". This text helps students to encounter in context the highlights of the book that have so often been anthologized: the madeleine dipped in the narrator's tear - the quintessential Proustian experience of affective memory - the scene of the goodnight kiss, the appearance of Swann, the evocation of the little town, the old servant, Francoise, and the charming landscapes. Suitable for both undergraduates and the general reader, an introduction clarifies the historical background to this masterpiece of French literature. It examines the ways in which the complexities of biography, literary transformation and the structural importance of its many themes may be approached and appreciated. The text is supported by full explanatory notes and frequent translations.
Contre Sainte-Beuve
Marcel Proust
Alternate cover edition of ASIN 2070324281
À la fin de l’automne 1908, Proust rentre de Cabourg épuisé. Depuis longtemps, il a renoncé à son œuvre. Profitant d’un répit que lui laisse sa maladie, il commence un article pour Le Figaro : «Contre Sainte-Beuve». Six mois plus tard, l’article est devenu un essai de trois cents pages. Conversant librement avec sa mère, l’auteur entrelace, autour d’une réflexion sur Sainte-Beuve les souvenirs personnels, les portraits d’amis, les impressions de lecture. Voici le château de Guermantes : voici M. de Quercy et Mme de Cardaillac, grands lecteurs de Balzac, mais qui ressemblent à s’y méprendre à Charlus et à Gilberte. Sans le savoir, Proust venait de libérer son génie.
Proust ne voulait pas qu’on mît des idées dans un roman. Toutes les analyses qu’il a écartées d’À la recherche du temps perdu, on les trouvera ici. Elles confirment que Proust, le plus grand romancier de son siècle, pourrait en être aussi le plus grand critique.
Dalla parte di Swann (Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, #1)
Marcel Proust
Quasi un preludio "musicale" all'intera "Recherche", "Dalla parte di Swann" (1913) introduce i temi cruciali dell'intera opera: il senso del tempo, la memoria, il sogno, l'abitudine, il desiderio. E poi ancora la gelosia, il rapporto tra arte e realtà, l'interagire di rituali ed emozioni. Il lettore fa conoscenza in queste pagine con i personaggi destinati ad accompagnarlo lungo i sette libri - Odette, Bloch, Françoise, Charlus... -, mentre la storia d'amore di Swann diventa quasi "figura" del contrastato rapporto che legherà poi il narratore a Gilberte e Albertine.
Days of Reading (Penguin Great Ideas)
Marcel Proust
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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.
Du côté de chez Swann
Marcel Proust
"Du côté de chez Swann" est le premier des sept volumes de la saga "À la recherche du temps perdu", l'un des textes clés de la littérature française, mais aussi mondiale, de l'ère moderne. Cet ouvrage n'a probablement pas d'analogue en termes d'échelle et de fudtalisme. "Du côté de chez Swann" se compose de trois parties. La première et la troisième sont les souvenirs de Marcel de sa propre enfance, des moments et des impressions qui l'ont le plus fortement influencé.
Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
Marcel Proust
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine que le dimanche matin à Combray (parce que ce jour-là je ne sortais pas avant l'heure de la messe), quand j'allais lui dire bonjour dans sa chambre, ma tante Léonie m'offrait après l'avoir trempé dans son infusion de thé ou de tilleul. La vue de la petite madeleine ne m'avait rien rappelé avant que je n'y eusse goûté... Mais, quand d'un passé ancien rien ne subsiste, après la mort des êtres, après la destruction des choses, seules, plus frêles mais plus vivaces, plus immatérielles, plus persistantes, plus fidèles, l'odeur et la saveur restent encore longtemps, comme des âmes, à se rappeler, à attendre, à espérer, sur la ruine de tout le reste, à porter sans fléchir, sur leur goutelette presque impalpable, l'édifice immense du souvenir.»
Em Busca do Tempo Perdido
Marcel Proust
[ Caixa | Volume I | Volume II | Volume III ]
'Em busca do tempo perdido' dispõe os sete livros originais em apenas 3 volumes. São dezenas de personagens que se cruzam em histórias de amor, ciúmes e inveja, na França da Belle Époque. A narrativa vai passando do detalhe ao painel e do painel ao detalhe sem projeções definidas, num constante reajuste de tudo aquilo que nunca será perfeitamente ajustado. A obra é um retrato da sociedade de uma época, um mergulho no universo da burguesia francesa que permite que o leitor sinta as divergências entre nobres e burgueses. Os volumes dividem-se em - volume I - 'O caminho de Swann', 'À sombra das moças em flor'; volume II - 'O caminho de Germantes', 'Sodoma e Gomorra', 'A prisioneira'; volume III - 'A fugitiva', 'O tempo recuperado'.
Em Busca do Tempo Perdido - mangá
Marcel Proust
Esta coleção traz para o leitor brasileiro os textos de grandes clássicos da literatura universal adaptados para a linguagem ágil e dinâmica das histórias em quadrinhos japonesas.
Em busca do tempo perdido é uma análise psicológica, minuciosa e implacável, em que Proust envolve o leitor em sensações, paixões, sentimentos e emoções do tempo e da memória. Embora a realidade da obra se baseie na vida do autor, há também elementos históricos da França e da própria Europa.
En busca del tiempo perdido
Marcel Proust
Proust, que junto con Franz Kafka y James Joyce, forma la trilogia de nombres imprescindibles de la literatura del siglo XIX, describio en A la busca del tiempo perdido mucho mas que una novela: la forma en que aflora la conciencia del Narrador -en ultima instancia, del individuo, de cualquiera- necesitaba una prosa distinta, compleja, que quiere reflejar los meandros por los que navega la memoria de los seres humanos. Para muchos historiadores, En busca del Tiempo perdido no solo es una obra cumbre de las letras francesas del siglo XX, sino tambien una de las mas grandes creaciones literarias de todas las epocas, en la que la trasposicion en el relato de la vida de Marcel Proust, asi como de personajes y ambientes sociales de su tiempo, se pone al servicio de un proposito radicalmente innovador del genero novelistico.
En Busca del Tiempo Perdido. 1. Por El Camino de Swann.
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is.
He claims that people are defined by the objects that surround them and must piece together their identities bit by bit each time they wake up. The young Marcel is so nervous about sleeping alone that he looks forward to his mother's goodnight kisses, but also dreads them as a sign of an impending sleepless night. One night, when Charles Swann, a friend of his grandparents, is visiting, his mother cannot come kiss him goodnight. He stays up until Swann leaves and looks so sad and pitiful that even his disciplinarian father encourages "Mamma" to spend the night in Marcel's room.
En busca del tiempo perdido, el manga
Marcel Proust
El lector que no tenga tiempo de leer esta obra maestra de la literatura en su edición original -en siete volúmenes y miles de páginas- puede acceder ahora al universo interior de Proust a través de esta fabulosa versión manga.
Escrito entre 1908 y 1922, la novela À la recherche du temps perdu (En busca del tiempo perdido) constituye una de las cimas de la literatura del siglo XX y ha sido enormemente influyente tanto en el campo de la literatura como en el de la filosofía y la teoría del arte.
Adentrarse en el laberinto de la memoria de Marcel Proust es iniciar un viaje maravilloso que culmina con el sabor de una magdalena. Los recuerdos de un narrador anónimo, con fuertes reminiscencias del propio autor, se enlazan hasta formar una red de emociones que consigue frenar el efecto destructor del tiempo y recuperar la felicidad del pasado a través de la memoria. A fin de cuentas, tal como afirmaba el propio autor, los verdaderos paraísos son los paraísos perdidos.
«Me llevé a los labios una cucharada de té en el que había echado un trozo de magdalena. Pero en el mismo instante en el que aquel trago, con las migas del bollo, tocó mi paladar, me estremecí, fija mi atención en algo extraordinario que ocurría en mi interior. Un placer delicioso me invadió, me aisló, sin noción de lo que lo causaba. Y él me convirtió las vicisitudes de la vida en indiferentes, sus desastres en inofensivos y su brevedad en ilusoria, todo del mismo modo que opera el amor, llenándose de una esencia preciosa; pero, mejor dicho, esa esencia no es que estuviera en mí, es que era yo mismo. Dejé de sentirme mediocre, contingente y mortal.»
En Busqueda del Tiempo Perdido VII (El tiempo recobrado) (En busca del tiempo perdido)
Marcel Proust
El séptimo y último volumen de En busca del tiempo perdido , la monumental obra maestra de Marcel Proust . Llegamos al fnal de nuestra magna edición de Proust. En este último volumen se entretejen todos los hilos dispuestos a lo largo de la gran novela y Marcel se reencuentra con todos sus amigos, esta vez decrépitos y envejecidos. Destruida la belleza. Cercana la muerte. Este es el volumen más otoñal y melancólico de la serie. Una extraordinaria refexión sobre el paso del tiempo. Lectura obligada.
În căutarea timpului pierdut. Swann (În căutarea timpului pierdut, #1)
Marcel Proust
Se poate afirma că, inițial, literatura proustiană, până să-și configureze acea viziune a rădăcinilor lumii, e un jurnal intim de femeie cultivată, conștiința proprie înlociund oglinda de budoar, în care ea se privește îndelung, se autoanalizează, la culcare seara, ca și la trezire dimineața.
Așa începe de altfel Du cote de Chez Swann,cu rememorarea exactă a tuturor senzațiilor de adormire și de deșteptare din somn, și numeroase alte pagini ale ciclului întreg nu diferă calitativ de aceastea.
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
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 À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece
Marcel Proust
Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained.
Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle.
For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
Marcel Proust
Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passed—his mother’s good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte—spring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grove—which won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant fame—the narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
Marcel Proust
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann's, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.
Since 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 Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is 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 his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu).
In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec become the primary agents of recollection for him. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. 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 French editions.
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Marcel Proust
«In Search of Lost Time» is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
Marcel Proust
'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.'In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator's youth and adolescence. From the enclosed spaces of the fin-de-siècle social world that revolves around Madame Swann, we move to the fictional town of Balbec on the Normandy coast, a place where the social classes intermingle with mutual fascination. Against the ever-changing backdrop of the sea--a constant reminder of beauty, mutability, and the vastness of the world beyond individual human affairs--the narrator encounters individuals who will shape his experience and indelibly colour his outlook on that world. He finds a friend in the aristocratic Robert de Saint-Loup and is perplexed by his enigmatic uncle the Baron de Charlus; he finds a tutelary figure in Elstir, the gifted, idiosyncratic painter; and in Albertine he comes to recognise the blossoming girl who will become the love--and the bane--of his life. The novel provides a breathaking illumination of what it is to encounter beauty and to seek to understand our relation to it, in people, in experiences, in art, or the landscape around us. An exploration of the thrills of infatuation, the fallibility of perception, and how desire builds and ebbs, the narrative prepares readers for the love affair that will define the narrator's future existence and shape the volumes of In Search of Lost Time to come.ABOUT THE For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.
First time in Penguin Classics
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s, following Lydia Davis's brilliant translation of Swann's Way
Jealousy: Vintage Minis
Marcel Proust
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try and possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater chronicler of jealousy’s darkest fears and destructive suspicions than Proust.
Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
Also in the Vintage Minis series:Desire by Haruki MurakamiEating by Nigella LawsonHome by Salman RushdieBabies by Anne Enright
Journées de lecture
Marcel Proust
Texte antérieur à l’écriture de la Recherche, Journées de lecture fut composé, dans sa première version, comme une préface à un ouvrage de l’auteur anglais John Ruskin. Y éclôt toutefois une poétique infiniment singulière, Marcel Proust esquissant là sa propre conception de l’expérience de lecture, et avec elle, déjà, de celle du temps qui passe.
«Ce qui diffère essentiellement entre un livre et un ami, ce n’est pas leur plus ou moins grande sagesse, mais la manière dont on communique avec eux…»
La fugitiva
Marcel Proust
En Albertine desaparecida sexto y penultimo volumen de En busca del tiempo perdido Proust prosigue su detallada y obsesiva narracion de los delirios amorosos de la angustia del deseo y en especial de los celos el sentimiento que alienta con mayor fuerza en estas paginas protagonizadas por Albertine una de las amantes mas perdurables de la literatura universal. En esta ocasion Proust sigue su peculiar tour de force en torno a la figura de la amante ausente del dolor por el cuerpo perdido. Sin duda estamos ante una de las reflexiones mas hondas y elaboradas sobre el amor el deseo y el paso del tiempo. Carlos Manzano a punto de culminar su titanica labor proustiana confirma de nuevo que estamos ante la mejor version castellana de una de las grandes obras de todos los tiempos.
La Prisonnière
Marcel Proust
Albertine a renoncé à faire une croisière et lorsque, à la fin de l’été, elle rentre de Balbec avec le narrateur, elle s’installe chez lui, à Paris: il ne se sent plus amoureux d’elle, elle n’a plus rien à lui apprendre, elle lui semble chaque jour moins jolie, mais la possibilité d’un mariage reste ouverte, et en lui rendant la vie agréable, peut-être songe-t-il à éveiller en elle le désir de l’épouser. Il se préoccupe en tout cas de son emploi du temps, l’interroge sur ses sorties sans pouvoir bien percer si sa réponse est un mensonge, et le désir que visiblement elle suscite chez les autres fait poindre la souffrance en lui.
Paru en 1923, La Prisonnière est le premier des trois volumes publiés après la mort de Proust et, quoique solidaire, bien sûr, de Sodome et Gomorrhe qui le précède comme d’Albertine disparue qui le suit, une certaine unité lui est propre, entre l’enfermement initial du narrateur et le départ final de la jeune fille. Pour l’essentiel, trois journées simplement se déroulent ici –le plus souvent dans l’espace clos de l’appartement –, et ce sont comme les trois actes d’un théâtre où la jalousie occupe toute la place.
La strada di Swann (Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, #1)
Marcel Proust
Questa è la prima parte del romanzo di «un tempo perduto», monumento della letteratura di questo secolo, nella traduzione di Natalia Ginzburg del 1946, rivista dalla scrittrice nel 1990. Durante una notte d'insonnia, il narratore cerca di rievocare alcune immagini della propria infanzia, ma la memoria sollecitata dalla volontà non offre che immagini mutilate e insignificanti. D' improvviso il sapore di una madeleine inzuppata nel tè gli restituisce, miracolosamente intatta, l'atmosfera di Combray, la cittadina di provincia dove ha passato molte estati della sua infanzia.
«Caro, dolcissimo Proust, - scrive Giovanni Macchia nel Congedo provvisorio - tu sei stato l'ultimo erede di una tradizione che ha creduto, come fine supremo dell'uomo, nell'arte. Hai esplorato con estremo coraggio il Continente Uomo, nei suoi vizi e nei suoi ideali».
Le Côté de Guermantes (À la recherche du temps perdu, #3)
Marcel Proust
«- Monsieur, je vous jure que je n'ai rien dit qui pût vous offenser. - Et qui vous dit que j'en suis offensé, s'écria M. de Charlus avec fureur en se redressant violemment sur la chaise longue où il était resté jusque-là immobile, cependant que, tandis que se crispaient les blêmes serpents écumeux de sa face, sa voix devenait tour à tour aiguë et grave comme une tempête assourdissante et déchaînée... Pensez-vous qu'il soit à votre portée de m'offenser ? Vous ne savez donc pas à qui vous parlez ? Croyez-vous que la salive envenimée de cinq cents petits bonshommes de vos amis, juchés les uns sur les autres, arriverait à baver seulement jusqu'à mes augustes orteils ?»
Le Mystérieux Correspondant et autres nouvelles retrouvées
Marcel Proust
Avant d’être le génial auteur de la Recherche, Proust écrivit des nouvelles inspirées de sa jeunesse dans les salons mondains, entre découverte du désir et amour qui fuit, frivolité et profondeur, apparence et réalité. C’est là qu’il met à l’épreuve son style, ses images, ses intuitions. Ce sera, en 1896, Les Plaisirs et les Jours. Mais peu avant la publication du recueil, Proust choisit d’en retirer quelques nouvelles, qui restèrent secrètes durant plus d’un siècle. Était-ce parce qu’il s’y confiait, presque sans dissimulation, sur son homosexualité, vécue comme une malediction ? Voici ces textes, fragiles, inaboutis, qui auraient si bien pu ne pas nous parvenir, et pour cela si émouvants. On y lit, en miniature, toutes les obsessions qui seront celles de la Recherche : l’amour malheureux, la fuite du temps, la satire sociale. En une phrase, une fulgurante, le futur Proust est déjà la. En nous faisant entrer comme jamais dans sa conscience, l’auteur nous ouvre son atelier de travail, son secret laboratoire, et le journal intime qu’il n’a pas écrit.
Les Plaisirs et les jours, suivi de "L'Indifférent"
Marcel Proust
«Nouvelles mondaines, histoires tendres, vers mélodiques, fragments où la précision du trait s'atténue dans la grâce molle de la phrase, M. Proust a réuni tous les genres et tous les charmes. Aussi les belles dames et les jeunes gens liront avec un plaisir ému un si beau livre.»
Léon Blum
«Il n'est pas simple de louer M. Marcel Proust : son premier livre, ce Traité des Plaisirs et des Jours, qu'il vient de publier, marque une si extrême diversité de talents que l'on peut être embarrassé d'avoir à les noter tous à la fois chez un aussi jeune écrivain. Il le faut cependant. Il faut même avouer que ces dons si variés ne se contrarient point, mais, au contraire, forment un assemblage heureux, brillant et facile.»
Charles Maurras
Le Temps retrouvé (À la recherche du temps perdu, #7)
Marcel Proust
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9782070382934.
Les parties blanches de barbes jusque-là entièrement noires rendaient mélancoliques le paysage humain de cette matinée, comme les premières feuilles jaunes des arbres alors qu'on croyait encore pouvoir compter sur un long été, et qu'avant d'avoir commencé d'en profiter on voit que c'est déjà l'automne. Alors moi qui depuis mon enfance vivais au jour le jour, ayant reçu d'ailleurs de moi-même et des autres une impression définitive, je m'aperçus pour la première fois, d'après les métamorphoses qui s'étaient produites dans tous ces gens, du temps qui avait passé pour eux, ce qui me bouleversa par la révélation qu'il avait passé aussi pour moi. Et indifférente en elle-même, leur vieillesse me désolait en m'avertissant des approches de la mienne.
Letters to His Neighbor
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell when his neighbor Dr. Williams married a widow with small children.
Chiefly to Mrs. Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, compliments, books, even pheasants) are frequently hilarious—Proust couches his fury in a gracious tone. In Lydia Davis’s hands, the digressive brilliance of his sentences shines: “Don't speak of annoying neighbors, but of neighbors so charming (an association of words contradictory in principle since Montesquiou claims that most horrible of all are 1) neighbors 2) the smell of post offices) that they leave the constant tantalizing regret that one cannot take advantage of their neighborliness.”
Proust makes fine distinctions among his auditory torments: “The valet de chambre makes noise and that doesn't matter. But later he knocks with little tiny raps. And that is worse.”
Lydia Davis has written a generous translator’s note, tracing much of what we can know about Proust’s perpetually dark room; she details the furnishings as well as the life he lived there: burning his powders, talking with friends, hiring musicians, and, most of all, suffering. Letters to His Neighbor is richly illustrated with facsimile letters and photographs—catnip for lovers of Proust.
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Marcel Proust
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris’s eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs.Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust’s eyes. You’ll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls.‘If you have suffered from noisy neighbours, you will sympathize with Marcel Proust’ Times Literary Supplement‘A haunting portrait of a friendship between two people who lived within earshot of one another, separated only by a few inches of plaster and floorboard, but who scarcely ever met’ New Statesman
L'indifférent (La Petite Collection) (French Edition)
Marcel Proust
« Il aime les femmes ignobles qu’on ramasse dans la boue et il les aime follement ; […] et non seulement il les aime follement, mais il n’aime qu’elles. La femme du monde la plus ravissante, la jeune fille la plus idéale lui est absolument indifférente. »
Marcel Proust décline dans ce recueil les motifs qui lui sont chers : charmes et illusions de l’amour, splendeurs et misères des mondanités, nature fantasmée, nostalgie.
Quatre trésors indispensables pour qui cherche à lire ou relire À la recherche du temps perdu .
Madame de Breyves melankoliska sommar
Marcel Proust
Just då var det ingen annan där förutom monsieur de Laléande, som inte kunde hitta sin spatserkäpp. Françoise roade sig en sista gång med att betrakta honom. Han gick förbi henne, lät sin armbåge snudda vid hennes, och just när de var jämsides vände han sig mot henne med skimrande ögon och sade, till synes alltjämt letande:
– Kom hem till mig, rue Royale 5.
Publicerad första gången i novellsamlingen Les plaisirs et les jours med titeln Mélancolique villégiature de Mme Breyves.
Pastiches et mélanges
Marcel Proust
«Il n'y a peut-être pas de jours de notre enfance que nous ayons si pleinement vécus que ceux que nous avons cru laisser sans les vivre, ceux que nous avons passés avec un livre préféré. Tout ce qui, semblait-il, les remplissait pour les autres, et que nous écartions comme un obstacle vulgaire à un plaisir divin : le jeu pour lequel un ami venait nous chercher au passage le plus intéressant, l'abeille ou le rayon de soleil gênants qui nous forçaient à lever les yeux de la page ou à changer de place, les provisions de goûter qu'on nous avait fait emporter et que nous laissions à côté de nous sur le banc, sans y toucher, tandis que, au-dessus de notre tête, le soleil diminuait de force dans le ciel bleu, le dîner pour lequel il avait fallu rentrer et pendant lequel nous ne pensions qu'à monter finir, tout de suite après, le chapitre interrompu, tout cela, dont la lecture aurait dû nous empêcher de percevoir autre chose que l'importunité, elle en gravait au contraire en nous un souvenir tellement doux (tellement plus précieux à notre jugement actuel que ce que nous lisions alors avec amour) que, s'il nous arrive encore aujourd'hui de feuilleter ces livres d'autrefois, ce n'est plus que comme les seuls calendriers que nous ayons gardés des jours enfuis, et avec l'espoir de voir reflétés sur leurs pages les demeures et les étangs qui n'existent plus.»
Por la parte de Swann (En busca del tiempo perdido, #1)
Marcel Proust
El primer volumen que abre este gran ciclo novelístico ya contiene la esencia y los grandes temas que se irán desarrollando con insólita maestría a lo largo de la rica y laberíntica narrativa proustiana: desde su lúcido examen del paso del tiempo y de los resortes de la memoria que llevan al individuo a evocar el pasado y reconstruirlo, hasta su particular concepción del amor como algo pasional pero también tormentoso; sin olvidar el exuberante retrato social del mundo de la aristocracia y la alta burguesía francesa que Proust conoció, o las agudas reflexiones sobre el arte como uno de los grandes logros del ser humano.
Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 1
Marcel Proust
Ce volume contient:
Du côté de chez Swann - À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (première partie) - Esquisses
Édition sous la direction de Jean-Yves Tadié avec la collaboration de Florence Callu, Francine Goujon, Eugène Nicole, Pierre-Louis Rey, Brian Rogers, Jo Yoshida
Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 2
Marcel Proust
Before his death in 1922, Marcel Proust accomplished the monumental feat of recording Remembrance of Things Past, a fifteen-volume literary history, much of which was based upon his own adventures and minute observations. The Guermantes Way is an installation in this collection and recounts, among other things, his childhood in Combray and the relevance of grasping the importance of particular events and people from his past in his development as a writer. Although autobiographical, Proust employs suspense and the observation of minutiae to illustrate our own subjective existence.
Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 3
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Volume Three; 3; III (of the 3 volume edition) containing The Captive; The Fugitive and Time Regained
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
Marcel Proust
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove .
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I (In Search of Lost Time, #1-3)
Marcel Proust
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.
Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
Marcel Proust
'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' — Vladimir Nabokov
Originally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an early and unreliable French edition, Proust’s masterpiece has now been flawlessly translated by Terence Kilmartin in this acclaimed version.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; & The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust
Volume I of II
Swann's Way
Within a Budding Grove
The Guermantes Way
Sfârșitul geloziei și alte povestiri
Marcel Proust
Leon Blum „Povestiri mondene, istorii tandre, fragmente in care precizia descrierii este atenuata de gratia molatica a frazei – M. Proust a reunit toate genurile si toate farmecele. Si doamnele, si tinerii vor citi cu o placere plina de emotie o carte atit de frumoasa.”Cuprins Moartea lui Baldassare Silvande, viconte de Sylvania Violante sau mondenitatea Vacanta melancolica a doamnei de Breyves Confesiunea unei tinere O cina in oras Sfirsitul geloziei Amintire Inaintea noptii Indiferentul
Sobre la lectura
Marcel Proust
La influencia que el escritor y pintor inglés John Ruskin ejerció en la lengua francesa en la segunda parte del siglo XIX fue interiorizada por Marcel Proust de tal modo que sobre ese cemento elaboró no sólo una teoría estética propia, sino que además formó ese "yo" que soporta la estructura de la novela-catedral que es "A la busca del tiempo perdido". La recuperación de impresiones que Proust saca de las teorías de Ruskin se produce ya en "Sobre la lectura" que adelanta pasajes de "A la busca del tiempo perdido". El recuerdo de las lecturas de la infancia anuncia las primeras páginas de "Por la parte de Swann", no sólo por el ámbito en que se mueve el protagonista —los platos pintados de la casa veraniega de tía Léonie en Illiers, la péndola, los espinos blancos—, sino también por el tono literario, por el fraseo largo e imbricado, por la sintaxis que se esponja y genera nuevas oraciones, por la mirada fijada en detalles en principio nimios, por la forma de abordar los personajes de los libros leídos, que cobran vida: no son fruto de la imaginación, la verdadera vida está en la lectura, de ahí la incomodidad que representan el mundo y las rutinas de la vida cotidiana, las obligaciones familiares, tener que comer con los demás, tener que obedecer órdenes como dejar el libro durante el paseo, irse a la cama y apagar la luz.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris, and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and also the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.
Sodome et Gomorrhe (À la recherche du temps perdu, #4)
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust est probablement le premier des grands écrivains qui ait franchi les portes de Sodome et Gomorrhe en flammes. Il songea d'ailleurs à donner le nom des deux cités bibliques à l'ensemble de son oeuvre - l'objet véritable de son étude n'est pas l'idéalisation d'une passion singulière ni l'explication philosophique de son mystère ni la psychologie amoureuse de ses desservants - psychologie qui obéit simplement aux lois générales de l'amour. C'est le portrait vivant, incarné par le plus hautain des seigneurs, de "l'homme traqué" par la société, en révolte latente contre elle, c'est la lutte de la nature contre la morale. Sodome, c'est M. de Charlus et Gomorrhe Albertine. Entre ces deux figures, chacune étant le centre d'une tragi-comédie dont le spectateur ne fait que percevoir les échos mêlés, le héros du livre, celui qui parle à la première personne, poursuit son voyage à la recherche du temps perdu.
Sodom ve Gomorra
Marcel Proust
"Andree'nin, o kendine has, zarif hareketlerinden biriyle, sokularak, başını Albertine'in omzuna dayayışını, gözleri yarı kapalı, boynunu öpüşünü görüyordum; ya da ikisinin arasında geçen bir bakışı yakalıyordum; ikisini tek başlarına denize girerken görmüş olan biri, ağzından bir laf kaçırıyordu; bu tür ufak tefek ayrıntılar, normal olarak bizi çevreleyen havada sürekli olarak uçuşur, insanların çoğu bunları gün boyu soluduğu halde, ne sağlıkları bozulur ne de keyifleri kaçar, ama hastalığa eğilimli bir insan için, yeni acılar yaratabilecek tehlikelerdir her biri."
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.
Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time)
Marcel Proust
The celebrated first volume of the novel that “brilliantly explores the workings of time and memory against the backdrop of Belle Époque France” (The New Criterion). One the greatest novels of the twentieth century, In Search of Lost Time begins with Swann’s Way, a young man’s evocative journey of perception and remembrance, “which meanders from the nameless narrator’s recollections of his Combray childhood to a time before his birth, when Swann was in love with Odette, and back again as the narrator meditates on the power of names over the imagination and recalls falling in love with Gilberte, Swann and Odette’s daughter” (Los Angeles Times). “A masterpiece . . . Even when I’ve felt myself hopelessly drifting in my little boat, I’ve felt the lulling beauty of Proust’s writing. This is a man who can make a multi-page description of a Hawthorn blossom fascinating—and then do it again, and again, and again. What’s more, when you actually focus, pick up those oars and start powering through those dense waters, you realize just how much is going on beneath the surface. What insights. What subtle ironies. What teasing jokes. What sensual pleasures. What feats of memory and description. What loving characterizations. And what devastating character assassinations. You realize, in short, that this is the stuff.” —The Guardian “Even those who have not read the novels are aware of the journey of memory on which the narrator goes when he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea; it has become ‘the Proustian moment.’” —The Telegraph
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is.
He claims that people are defined by the objects that surround them and must piece together their identities bit by bit each time they wake up. The young Marcel is so nervous about sleeping alone that he looks forward to his mother's goodnight kisses, but also dreads them as a sign of an impending sleepless night. One night, when Charles Swann, a friend of his grandparents, is visiting, his mother cannot come kiss him goodnight. He stays up until Swann leaves and looks so sad and pitiful that even his disciplinarian father encourages "Mamma" to spend the night in Marcel's room.
Swann's Way : In the search of lost time: First part
Marcel Proust
Swans Way
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is.
He claims that people are defined by the objects that surround them and must piece together their identities bit by bit each time they wake up. The young Marcel is so nervous about sleeping alone that he looks forward to his mother's goodnight kisses, but also dreads them as a sign of an impending sleepless night. One night, when Charles Swann, a friend of his grandparents, is visiting, his mother cannot come kiss him goodnight. He stays up until Swann leaves and looks so sad and pitiful that even his disciplinarian father encourages "Mamma" to spend the night in Marcel's room.
The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
Marcel Proust
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).
The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922)—one of the great literary figures of the modern age—ranks alongside such innovative authors as Joyce, Beckett, and Kafka. Proust is best known for his celebrated, influential, and monumental cyclic novel Remembrance of Things Past, the focus and culmination of his literary ambition.
But before committing to this lifelong endeavor, he wrote short stories, publishing most of them in 1896 in a collection titled Pleasures and Days, with a preface by Nobel Prize-winner Anatole France. It represents the only other book Proust published during his lifetime.
Much like Joyce's Dubliners, the individual stories fuse into a mosaic reflecting--and reacting to—various aspects of fin-de-siècle Paris itself, the coalescing presence in Pleasures and Days. These highly original, lean narratives manifest the same qualities that distinguish the seven-volume Remembrance: the precarious mental and reotic nuances of love; the fragile mysteries of time passing and time past; deft, humorous characterizations and psychological epiphanies; vivid, tongue-in-cheek descriptions of Paris, its sumptuous wealth and decadence; and its citizens' sexual confusion and amorous follies.
In The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust, award-winning translator Joachim Neugroschel offers readers a new translation of Pleasures and Days, the first in over fifty years, and one that fully renders the vitality and delicate irony of the original French. In addition, this collection includes six stories previously uncollected and never before available in English.
The resulting volume is both a perfect introduction to Marcel Proust—particularly for readers daunted by the mammoth undertaking required of Remembrance—and a work of enduring artistry in its own right.
The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust
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.
First time in Penguin Classics
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with french flaps and luxurious design
Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s
The Prisoner
Marcel Proust
The long-awaited fifth volume — representing "the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate) — in the acclaimed Penguin translation of "the greatest literary work of the twentieth century" (The New York Times)
Carol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Timethe first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s — brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.
The titular "prisoner" is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family's apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel's judgmental family servant, Françoise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine's relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying her couture gowns, furs, and jewelry in an attempt to protect her from herself and from the outside world and. And yet in addition to being a tragedy of possessive love, The Prisoner is also a comedy of human folly and misunderstanding, linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences, art, irrationality, social snobbery, and, of course, time and memory.
Time Regained
Marcel Proust
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature-his past life. This volume also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, an index to all six volumes of the novel.
Um Amor de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)
Marcel Proust
Esta obra narra o amor obsessivo de Swann, homem culto da aristocracia francesa, por Odette, mulher fútil de reputação duvidosa. De simples caso desinteressado, a relação evolui para algo que toma conta da vida do protagonista. Ao narrar a história de Swann e Odette, a obra ultrapassa a descrição de uma simples história de amor para revelar gradualmente a complexidade dos sentimentos, da memória e do tempo. Um amor de Swann é a porta de entrada para a monumental obra de um dos maiores escritores do século XX.
Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)
Marcel Proust
Un amour de Swann est un fragment de À la recherche du temps perdu, la deuxième partie de Du côté de chez Swann.
Son sujet en est l'amour et la jalousie qu'éprouve Swann pour Odette de Crécy. C'est pourquoi il a depuis toujours fait l'objet d'éditions séparées, comme s'il constituait un petit roman autonome.
Veien til Swann (På sporet av den tapte tid, #1)
Marcel Proust
På sporet av den tapte tid, fører sin forteller fra barndommens verden i første bind gjennom selskaps- og kjærlighetslivets irrganger frem til beslutningen i siste bind om å bryte med verden for å skrive om den.
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
Marcel Proust
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”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).
Within A Budding Grove, Part 1
Marcel Proust
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”
Within a Budding Grove, Part 2 Remembrance of Things Past Unabridged
Marcel Proust
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”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).
Αναζητώντας τον χαμένο χρόνο Ι: Από τη μεριά του Σουάν
Marcel Proust
Ξέρουμε σήμερα καλύτερα τις διεργασίες γέννησης αυτού του έργου ζωής, αυτού του απέραντου ποταμού λέξεων που συγκλόνισε τη λογοτεχνία του 20ου αιώνα, στη Γαλλία αλλά και σ' όλο τον κόσμο. Ο αναγνώστης έρχεται εδώ σ' επαφή συνάμα με μια εποποιία της σκέψης, μ' ένα ταξίδι στους λαβύρινθους του κοσμικού, καλλιτεχνικού και διανοητικού στερεώματος της εποχής του Προύστ, με μιαν αξιοθαύμαστη ψυχολογική μελέτη, κι όλα αυτά στην υπηρεσία μιας ανεπανάληπτης γλώσσας. Ξέρουμε επίσης τις περιστάσεις του θανάτου του Μαρσέλ Προύστ, την εγγραφή της λέξης "τέλος" και την υπαγόρευση των τελευταίων φράσεων, την εξάντληση του συγγραφέα από τούτη την αναζήτηση και ανακάλυψη του χαμένου χρόνου. Ξέρουμε ίσως λιγότερο τις περιστάσεις που οδήγησαν στην εμφάνιση της ελληνικής μετάφρασης του έργου: έχουμε να κάνουμε εδώ με τις δυσκολίες, την οξυδέρκεια και τη δύναμη ενός ανθρώπου, μέσα από τις οποίες γεννήθηκε και προσφέρεται σήμερα στους αναγνώστες το "Αναζητώντας τον χαμένο χρόνο".
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