This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ...
In CITIES OF THE PLAIN (also known as SODOM AND GOMORRAH), Marcel continues his forays into the aristocratic society into which he has finally been admitted, finding satisfaction but a growing disillusionment as well, and is both fascinated and repelled by the world of the flamboyant homosexual Baron de Charlus, and reports on the intricate, ...
Living in Paris with his family, Marcel becomes infatuated with the Duchess of Guermantes and, through his friend St.-Loup, her nephew, he attempts to make her acquaintance. His initiation into aristocratic society includes an introduction not only to its splendors but to its vices, including the homosexuality of the Baron de Charlus and the anti ...
With his grandmother, the adolescent Marcel spends the summer in Balbec, a fashionable resort on the English Channel, and meets some of the characters who will fascinate him for much of his life: the Marquise de Villeparisis, the Baron de Charlus, Robert de St.-Loup, and the group of young girls of whom Albertine is the focus.
Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, "Swannas Way," along with the second volume of "In Search of Lost Time," "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower," will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. ...
In THE CAPTIVE, Marcel, in Balbec for the summer, is overwhelmed by a realization of the import of his grandmother's death. His jealous love for Albertine continues, along with suspicions that she is a lesbian. He becomes intimately involved with the Verdurins, the snobbish bourgeois family at whose home he meets artists and musicians, as well as ...
One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales.
With his grandmother, the adolescent Marcel spends the summer in Balbec, a fashionable resort on the English Channel, and meets some of the characters who will fascinate him for much of his life: the Marquise de Villeparisis, the Baron de Charlus, Robert de St.-Loup, and the group of young girls of whom Albertine is the focus.
This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ...
The reader portrays Swann's longing for the former courtesan Odette de Crecy, and Marcel's childish love for their daughter Gilberte, with exceptional passion.
In THE CAPTIVE, Marcel, in Balbec for the summer, is overwhelmed by a realization of the import of his grandmother's death. His jealous love for Albertine continues, along with suspicions that she is a lesbian. He becomes intimately involved with the Verdurins, the snobbish bourgeois family at whose home he meets artists and musicians, as well as ...
With the coming of the First World War, Marcel's milieu undergoes changes, epitomized by the emergence of Mme. Verdurin as the new princesse de Guermantes. Marcel's friend Robert de Saint-Loup marries Gilberte. Marcel visits Gilberte at Swann's old estate in Combray, but the visit is not a success: Marcel is no longer enchanted by his old village ...
This outtake from Marcel Proust's SWANN'S WAY is an account of the long, obsessive affair between Swann, the Parisian man about town, and Odette, the cocotte to whom he is enslaved.
TIME REGAINED, the final volume of Proust's great work, covers the years of World War I and its aftermath. Marcel returns to Paris, sees many of the people he once knew (now grown old and grotesque), and finds that the thrice-married Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He also meets Gilberte's daughter, Mlle. De Saint-Loup, who ...
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 A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).
This wonderful collection of Marcel Proust's Letters, selected and translated by Mina Curtiss, is both a revelatory introduction to the great writer and a treasure trove for those readers more familiar with "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu." Mina Curtiss especially chose them as apt illustrations of Proust's growing sensibility and intellectual ...
As a boy, Marcel falls in love with Gilberte, the daughter of Swann and Odette, and suffers all the torments of first love. He is also introduced to the world of the arts, in particular the theatre, and to the world of literary eminence when he meets Bergotte, a successful writer. Marcel resolves to dedicate himself to writing, even though he ...
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