In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Hardcover

Proust, Marcel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670032778 ISBN 13: 9780670032778

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

Synopsis

A definitive new translation of the second volume of In Search of Lost Time captures the intricacies and challenges of male and female adolescence and awakening love, based on the narrator's reminiscences about Paris and the Normandy coast. 17,500 first printing.

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Review:

"Scott Moncrieff's translation was rather like swimming through syrup...Kilmartin and Enright have produced a version that wonderfully proves the greatness of this novel, this novelist. The prose that describes Swann's sexual obsession, for instance, is so good you have to stop after many a paragraph, re-read, think over it" (Melvyn Bragg Guardian)

"What a genius! Whole pages cascade, like great jazz slaloms" (Bill Nighy The Times)

"One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon" (The Times)

"Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century" (Sunday Telegraph)

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

Book Description:

The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670032778
• ISBN 13: 9780670032778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Prendergast Christopher