Marcel Proust
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).
Alla ricerca del tempo perduto
Marcel Proust
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
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.»
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.”
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
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.
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
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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.
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Marcel Proust
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 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: 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.
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).
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
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.
Letters to His Neighbor
Marcel Proust
Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I (In Search of Lost Time, #1-3)
Marcel Proust
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).
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.
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