Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed In Search Of Lost Time, you might like James Joyce's Ulysses, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation

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). Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. 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. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English.

Since the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C. 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. 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. The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.

One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol.

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