| Remembrance of Things Past Volume Two Revised Edition Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author), Moncrieff, C. K. Scott (Translator), Hudson, Stephen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 184022147X ISBN-13: 9781840221473 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Classics of World Literature |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (2.30 lbs) 1296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson 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's 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 art as 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. |