The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time volume 3)

Proust, Marcel (translation, introduction & notes by Mark Treharne)

ISBN 10: 0713996064 / ISBN 13: 9780713996067

Published by Allen Lane - Penguin Books, London, 2002

About this Item

2002. First printing. xiii, 621ppSince 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 edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation." Pages browning, otherwise the book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. No inscriptions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time volume 3)
• Publisher: Allen Lane - Penguin Books, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713996064
• ISBN 13: 9780713996067
• Binding: Original Black Hardcovers
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
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Synopsis

Proust's monumental work has been described as the masterwork of masterworks; its place in the history of world literature was assured long ago. Yet since Scott Moncrieff's original translation, there has been no brand-new rendering of the French original into English. Now, Penguin is proud to present a superb new translation of this seminal work for the twenty-first century. Tthis translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. Language, and its rich variety and extravagances, is very much at the centre of this translation by many hands; a team of translators is ideally placed to capture Proust's world of multiple styles and modes of writing.

About the Author

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.