Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
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Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and 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 IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
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When it was first suggested we invite M. de Norpois to dinner, my mother commented that it was a pity Professor Cottard was absent from Paris and that she herself had quite lost touch with Swann, either of whom the former ambassador would have been pleased to meet; to which my father replied that although a guest as eminent as Cottard, a scientific man of some renown, would always be an asset at one's dinner-table, the Marquis de Norpois would be bound to see Swann, with his showing-off and his name-dropping, as nothing but a vulgar swank, 'a rank outsider', as he would put it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mme Swann, Mme de Villeparisis, Mme Bontemps, Mme Cottard, Mme Verdurin, Mme de Sévigné, First President, New Year's Day, Princess of Luxembourg, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Bois de Boulogne, Nissim Bernard, Mlle de Stermaria, Duchesse de Guermantes, Mlle Simonet, Mme Elstir, Select Committee, Duchesse de Vendôme, Comte de Paris, King Theodosius, Mme Blatin, Aunt Léonie, Jockey Club, Baron de Charlus, Lady Israels New!
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When it was first suggested we invite M. de Norpois to dinner, my mother commented that it was a pity Professor Cottard was absent from Paris and that she herself had quite lost touch with Swann, either of whom the former ambassador would have been pleased to meet; to which my father replied that although a guest as eminent as Cottard, a scientific man of some renown, would always be an asset at one's dinner-table, the Marquis de Norpois would be bound to see Swann, with his showing-off and his name-dropping, as nothing but a vulgar swank, 'a rank outsider', as he would put it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mme Swann, Mme de Villeparisis, Mme Bontemps, Mme Cottard, Mme Verdurin, Mme de Sévigné, First President, New Year's Day, Princess of Luxembourg, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Bois de Boulogne, Nissim Bernard, Mlle de Stermaria, Duchesse de Guermantes, Mlle Simonet, Mme Elstir, Select Committee, Duchesse de Vendôme, Comte de Paris, King Theodosius, Mme Blatin, Aunt Léonie, Jockey Club, Baron de Charlus, Lady Israels New!
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- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust on page 1, page 9, and Back Matter
- The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust on page 1, page 2, and page 9
- James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism by John Nash in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literature and the Taste of Knowledge (The Empson Lectures) by Michael Wood on page 154, and Back Matter
- Mille et une nuits dans "La Recherche" (Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui 2) (French Edition) by Sabine van Wesemael on page 83, and page 102
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