- Paperback: 832 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099425130
- ISBN-13: 978-0099425137
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs is a collapsed woman in the street on Christmas Eve. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband. Milton Amery is her husband, an unfaithful New York plastic surgeon. All three of their roads leads to Inishowen.
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Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1971. In his twenties, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day, After '899, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before the publication of the last three volumes of his great work.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had been intrigued by Proust since early age, for one of my favourite books is Gold and Fizdale's "Misia" and his name crops up all the time. I bought the Scott Moncrieff's English version in Paris over ten years ago and I know that many supposedly more authoritative versions have come out ever since. Yet, a few years ago I read the version in French as organised by Jean-Yves Tadié, the best known pundit on Proust's work to date and I have to say Moncrieff's translation doesn't stray that far from the original. "A la recherche" is to me the most important book in the history of literature. Compellingly philosophical, psychological, soul-searching and esthetic, no details of life go amiss. I am alternately moved, stirred and surprised at Proust's dexterity in describing the wide range of human emotions and the complexity of human interactions. He discusses art, love, jealousy, nostalgy, ambition, social climbing, politics and you cannot fail to empathise with his prose or finding new moot questions with each new reading of his work. His work is as relevant today as it was at the time when it got published.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Having just gotten my B.A. a couple of years ago I must have been in an ambitious mood or something, because I decided to read the whole of In Search of Lost Time, cover to cover, pausing only for food and sleep. It's the sort of work that looks more like Mount Everest than a regular ol' novel when you first start reading it, but it turned out to be one of the best companions I could have asked for over the past few years. Proust was a mmaster of the cooly detatched but almost unbelievably sensitive description of human motivation, and his perspective on the harmless, but decadent latter-day French aristocracy whose attitudes and practices provie most of the material for the seven books in the series, is deeply selfish and amoral, but also inexhaustibly curious and sympathetic. This constrast comes out most noticeably in The Captive and The Fugitive, which basically consist of several hundred pages of reflection upon Proust's love affair with a young girl named Albertine. The pair of novels are full of long, sustained reflections on the nature of love, and upon the deep mysteries that attend upon trying to understand what makes other people tick. There is an especially lovely passage in which Proust describes the feelings he undergoes while watching Albertine sleep. By the time of the end of the novel, though, the reader finds himself left with the curious sense that one doesn't actually know anything at all concrete about the "Fugitive" Albertine. Nobody was better than Proust at dissecting the motives and the mores of other people without ever gining in to the novelist's illusion that he understood them better than they did themselves. I recommend these novels to anyone who is up for a bit of a challenge (even Scott Moncrieff's lovely translation of the French could never make Proust an "easy read"), and who is prepared to be enlightened by the reading of a novel even if it doesn't issue in the usual "payoff" of a sense of superior understanding in relation to the charatcters depicted there.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is Volume 5 of Proust's masterpiece 'In Search of Lost Time', a rambling, beautiful semi-autobiographical novel about love, desire and what it means to be human, in the context of wealthy Parisian society at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. This volume (which was originally published as two separate books, 'The Captive' and 'The Fugitive') is particularly focused on Proust's love for Albertine, and all the heartache she brings him.
But this is really a part of one long novel (and close to the end at that), so there is absolutely no point in reading this volume if you haven't already read the previous four books. If you are new to Proust then it is essential that you begin with 'Swann's Way', the first volume and the only one that will work as a stand-alone novel.
This relatively recent translation by Carol Clark aims to update the original Scott Moncrieff version, putting more emphasis on literal accuracy rather than trying to capture the essence of Proust's flowing prose, as Scott Moncrieff did, perhaps adding some of his own interpretation occasionally.
I don't think it matters too much which translation you go for: both approaches have their merits and their devotees, and the differences aren't all that great. It is the beauty of the writing that makes Proust so special, and that is retained well enough, whichever translator you go for.
But this is really a part of one long novel (and close to the end at that), so there is absolutely no point in reading this volume if you haven't already read the previous four books. If you are new to Proust then it is essential that you begin with 'Swann's Way', the first volume and the only one that will work as a stand-alone novel.
This relatively recent translation by Carol Clark aims to update the original Scott Moncrieff version, putting more emphasis on literal accuracy rather than trying to capture the essence of Proust's flowing prose, as Scott Moncrieff did, perhaps adding some of his own interpretation occasionally.
I don't think it matters too much which translation you go for: both approaches have their merits and their devotees, and the differences aren't all that great. It is the beauty of the writing that makes Proust so special, and that is retained well enough, whichever translator you go for.
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Best one in the series so far
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I LOVE Proust. Really worth persevering with, and it's even better in French.
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