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. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
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 wars end, Prousts narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literaturehis past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).
A BBC Radio six-part dramatisation of Marcel Proust's groundbreaking series of novels, tracing the extraordinary story of the author's own life. Starring James Wilby and Jonathan Firth, and with a distinguished cast including Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs, and Corin Redgrave, this rich, multi-layered adaptation brings out all the variety and subtlety of Proust's magnificent masterpiece.Featuring a fictional version of himself - 'Marcel' - and a host of friends, acquaintances, and lovers, In Search of Lost Time is Proust's search for the key to the mysteries of memory, time, and consciousness. As he recalls his childhood days, the sad affair of Charles Swann and Odette de Crecy, his transition to manhood, the tortures of love and the ravages of war, he realises that the simplest of discoveries can lead to astonishing possibilities.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).
" 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
Graal proustien, les « soixante-quinze feuillets » de très grand format étaient devenus légendaires. La seule trace qui en existait était l’allusion qu’y faisait Bernard de Fallois, en 1954, dans la
Le Narrateur est entré dans le monde magique des Guermantes, dont le nom, enfant, le faisait rêver lors de promenades à Combray. Voisin de leur hôtel particulier parisien, il cultive son amour pour l
