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Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered
early manuscripts of the twentieth century's most towering literary
figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the
creation of his masterpiece. One of the most significant literary
events of the century, the discovery of manuscript pages containing
early drafts of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time put an end
to a decades-long search for the Proustian grail. The Paris
publisher Bernard de Fallois claimed to have viewed the folios, but
doubts about their existence emerged when none appeared in the
Proust manuscripts bequeathed to the Bibliotheque Nationale in
1962. The texts had in fact been hidden among Fallois's private
papers, where they were found upon his death in 2018. The
Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts presents
these folios here for the first time in English, along with
seventeen other brief unpublished texts. Extensive commentary and
notes by the Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer offer insightful
critical analysis. Characterized by Fallois as the "precious guide"
to understanding Proust's masterpiece, the folios contain early
versions of six episodes included in the novel. Readers glimpse
what Proust's biographer Jean-Yves Tadie describes as the "sacred
moment" when the great work burst forth for the first time. The
folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's writing, with
traces of his family life scattered throughout. Before the
existence of Charles Swann, for example, we find a narrator named
Marcel, a testament to what one scholar has called "the gradual
transformation of lived experience into (auto)fiction in Proust's
elaboration of the novel." Like a painter's sketches and a
composer's holographs, Proust's folios tell a story of artistic
evolution. A "dream of a book, a book of a dream," Fallois called
them. Here is a literary magnum opus finding its final form.
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Swann in Love (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by Lucy Raitz
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Stunning edition of the standalone novella from Proust's great
masterpiece, in a new translation When Charles Swann first lays
eyes on Odette de Crécy, he is indifferent to her beauty. Their
paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of
Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to
flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy
and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate
comfort of his society life. A standalone novella from Proust's
monumental masterpiece, Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and
poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the
rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish
Proust's style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the
world's great novelists.
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from
Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an
elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives
Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs
lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but
all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. Written by
Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this
precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a
Paris building, as seen through Proust's eyes. You'll read of the
effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the
sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and
writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between
two lonely souls. 'Delightful. Big news for Proustians' Daily
Telegraph 'If you have suffered from noisy neighbours, you will
sympathize with Marcel Proust' Times Literary Supplement 'A
haunting portrait of a friendship between two people who lived
within earshot of one another, separated only by a few inches of
plaster and floorboard, but who scarcely ever met' New Statesman
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Swann in Love (Hardcover)
Marcel Proust; Translated by Lucy Raitz
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When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crecy, he is
indifferent to her beauty. Their paths continue to cross in the
drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds
of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey
through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will
take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life. A
standalone novella from Proust's monumental masterpiece, Swann in
Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of
love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating
insight that distinguish Proust's style, it is the perfect
introduction to one of the world's great novelists.
The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's
beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss. This is the first
volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest French novels
of the twentieth century. Travelling back through time, the
narrator tells the story of events long since past - his childhood
happiness and sadness, and memories brought famously back to life
by the taste of a madeleine. His family's friend and neighbour, the
aristocratic Swann, weaves through the tale. We learn of Swann's
passionate love affair with Odette, a jealous love that creates a
model for the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great
themes begin here: time and memory, love and loss, art and the
artistic vocation. THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT
MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION The best translation available:
'A really major, significant achievement, and one that you should
put on your Christmas list immediately' Guardian VINTAGE FRENCH
CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable
editions.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's
classic version of Proust, published in three volumes Proust's
masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century,
recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love
and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on
art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the
definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation
from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and
is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics. This first
volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove. 'Scott
Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of
translations which are themselves literary masterpieces ... his
book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version
of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced' - A. N. Wilson
'For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K
Scott Moncrieff ... There are some who believe his headily perfumed
translation of A la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Epoque
France more vividly even than the original' - Telegraph 'I was more
interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's
creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff
Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the
twentieth century Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short
stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did
he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible
answer is that he was developing his themes in preparation for his
masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time; another is that the stories
were too audacious - too near to life - for the censorious society
of the time. In these stories, published here for the first time,
we find an intimate picture of a young author full of darkness and
melancholy, longing to reveal his true self to the world.
Marcel Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A
la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among
them "the greatest novel ever written" and "the greatest novel of
the first half of the twentieth century." Swann's Way, the first
volume of the Recherche and the most widely read and taught of all
the volumes, is the ideal introduction to Proust's inventive
genius. This Norton Critical Edition is based on C. K. Scott
Moncrieff's translation, which introduced the English-speaking
world to Proust and was published during the author's lifetime. It
is accompanied by Susanna Lee's introduction, note on the text, and
explanatory annotations. Marcel Proust was forty-two years old when
Swann's Way was published, but its foundational ideas and general
shape had been evolving for decades. "Contexts" includes a 1912
reader's report of the manuscript that exemplifies publishers'
complicated reactions to Proust's new form of writing. Also
included are three important post-publication reviews of the novel,
by Elie-Joseph Bois, Lucien Daudet, and Paul Souday, as well as
Andre Arnyvelde's 1913 interview with Proust. The fourteen critical
essays and interpretations of Swann's Way in this volume speak to
the novel's many facets-from the musical to the artistic to its
representations of Judaism and homosexuality. Contributors include
Gerard Genette, whose "Metonymy in Proust" appears here in English
translation for the first time, along with Gilles Deleuze, Roger
Shattuck, Claudia Brodsky, Julia Kristeva, Margaret E. Gray, and
Alain de Botton, among others. The edition also includes a
Chronology of Proust's Life and Work, a Selected Chronology of
French Literature from 1870 to 1929, and a Selected Bibliography.
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Swann's Way (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by C.K.Scott Moncrieff
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After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In
Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling
landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth
century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the
literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a
devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes
Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the
initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This
elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation
of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.First
time in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with
french flaps and luxurious designPenguin Classics' superb new
edition of In Search of Lost Time is the first completely new
translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s
One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.
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Swann's Way (Paperback)
Marcel Proust, James Grieve
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Jealousy - Vintage Minis (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by C.K.Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin; Revised by D.J. Enright
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Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book
Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's
jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one
another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever
reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater
chronicler of jealousy's darkest fears and destructive suspicions
than Proust. Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by
Marcel Proust VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the
experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Desire by Haruki Murakami Eating by Nigella Lawson Home by Salman
Rushdie Babies by Anne Enright
The Way by Swann’s is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann’s, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age – satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition.
In what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer called "a piano
reduction of an orchestral score," the first volume of Stephane
Heuet's adaptation of In Search of Lost Time electrified the
graphic community like no other-re-presenting the novel for anyone
who has always dreamed of reading Proust but was put off by the
sheer magnitude of the undertaking. Whereas the first volume
described the narrator's childhood in the pastoral town of Combray,
the second volume portrays the narrator's foray into adolescence,
set in the opulent seaside resort of Balbec. Preserving Proust's
original dissection of the spontaneity of youth, translator Laura
Marris captures the narrator's infatuation with his playmates-his
memories of their intoxicating afternoons together unfolding as if
in a dream. Featuring some of Proust's most memorable
characters-from mysterious Charlus to beguiling young
Albertine-this second volume becomes a necessary companion piece
for any lover of modern literature.
Recognized as one of the major literary works of the
twentieth-century, Marcel Proust's monumental seven-volume novel
brings together memories of childhood and Parisian society before
and during the First World War. This new adaptation is based on
Harold Pinter's screenplay, written at the request of the film
director Joseph Losey in 1972. Remembrance of Things Past premiered
at the Royal National Theatre in November 2000.
"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" is Proustas spectacular
dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the
narratoras 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 M. 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 narratoras
lifeathe Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.
A new, definitive text of Marcel Proust's novel was published by the Biblioth-que de la Pl-iade in 1989. for the present six-volume edition, D. J. Enright has further revised Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed revision of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation, and has incorporated significant new material. As a result, Proust's masterpiece emerges with renewed freshness and authority in this unassailable translation. Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the six and final volume also includes a Guide to the complete work
Marcel Proustas "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the most
entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the
finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original
prewar translation there has been no completely new version in
English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proustas masterpiece to new
audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davisas
internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, "Swannas
Way."
In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.
Sodom and Gomorrah--now in a superb translation by John
Sturrock--takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female,
and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who
suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both
the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine
bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who
had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different
light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the
narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de
Charlus.First time in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classics Deluxe
Edition with French flaps and luxurious designThe first completely
new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s
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