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In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
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 Sw ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's ch teau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectua ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. "Flower and plant have no conscious will," Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust's representation of sexualit ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #5: The Captive and the Fugitive by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
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 ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time #6: Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature--his past life. This Mode ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time - A Graphic Novel: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction
The ideal introduction to Marcel Proust's inventive genius, 'Swann's Way' is the first volume of his seven-volume masterpiece, 'In Search of Lost Time'. Based on C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation which was published during the author's lifetime, this critical edition is accompanied by Susanna Lee's int ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 2 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics
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 obje ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 3 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics
In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations, and his experiences with his ...Show more