The Guermantes way - Softcover

Marcel Proust

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394705963 ISBN 13: 9780394705965

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1970

Synopsis

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. 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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Review:

"There has never been anyone else with Proust's ability to show us things; Proust's pointing finger is unequaled." --Walter Benjamin

" There has never been anyone else with Proust's ability to show us things; Proust's pointing finger is unequaled." -- Walter Benjamin

There has never been anyone else with Proust s ability to show us things; Proust s pointing finger is unequaled. Walter Benjamin"

About the Author:

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann's Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments--The Guermantes Way (1920-21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)--appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust's death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0394705963
• ISBN 13: 9780394705965
• Binding: Paperback