In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Deluxe Edition Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author), Grieve, James (Translator), Grieve, James (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0143039075 ISBN-13: 9780143039075 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: "A triumph . . . will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world."--Malcolm Bowie, "Sunday Telegraph." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2003058912 |
Series: Penguin Classics |
Physical Information: 1.48" H x 5.72" W x 8.3" (1.33 lbs) 558 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume in the superb edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s--it brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull Monsieur de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator's life--the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine. |