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In Search of Lost Time Vol 1: The Way by Swann's
 
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In Search of Lost Time Vol 1: The Way by Swann's (Hardcover)
by Marcel Proust (Author), Christopher Prendergast (Editor), Lydia Davis (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane; New Ed edition (14 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0713996048
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713996043
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 352,270 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

From the Back Cover
'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get.' Allan Massie, Scotsman

In this opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator seems at first to be launching a fairly traditional life-story. But after the prelude the narrator travels backwards rather than forwards in time, in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette, together with the comic antics of the Verdurins and the adoring members of their 'little clan', provide a prophetic model of the narrator's own love-relationships and peregrinations in salon society. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

This fully revised translation of the definitive text has incorporated significant new material. As a result, Proust's masterpiece emerges with renewed freshness and authority. Each volume contains notes, addenda and a synopsis. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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