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Author:
Marcel Proust
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099362616
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EAN: 9780099362616
Published: 5 Mar 2009
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic state of affairs. His obsessive love for her means that their relationship is shadowed by jealousy and headed for tragedy.
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Oh if I could write like that!
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One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon
- The Times
Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful... The experience of reading [the book] becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing
- Independent
The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating
- Guardian
There are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives
- Daily Mail
Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century
- Sunday Telegraph
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.
