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Title: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol 1
Author: PROUST MARCEL
Illustrator: MONCRIEFF C K SCOTT (TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/11/2004
Imprint: WORDSWORTH
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of ar and a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age. Scott Moncrieff’s delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original, Moncrieff’s translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust’s style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.
ISBN: 9781840221466