"Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time is an accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired novels in literature."--Back cover.
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 Marcel Proust William C. Carter. in translation is the double entendre of “temps perdu” as “wasted” or “lost” time. In his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear: Translation and the Meaning ...
This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.
Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and the last publication from the French literary classic that Proust was able to preside over before his death in 1922.
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust, is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most ...
A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time.
In the second volume of the acclaimed novel, the narrator recalls his adolescent discoveries of art and women in Belle Époque France.
The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off.
This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the author’s ...
The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth "The greatest literary work of the ...