In Search Of Lost Time: The Way By Swann's By Marcel Proust
(Paperback, 2003)

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One of the greatest most entertaining reading experiences in any language Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family & 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 & endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition Since the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C K Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged comic & lucid Proust As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end it is this Penguin Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist & perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu) If you enjoyed In Search Of Lost Time you might like James Joyce's Ulysses also available in Penguin Modern Classics' The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph & will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world' Sunday Telegraph