In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust · À la recherche du temps perdu
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1913-1927
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- French
- Length
- Epic · 4200 ppover 700 pages
- Difficulty
- Formidable5 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendIn Search of Lost Time, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. EnrightModern Library, 2003The revised Scott Moncrieff in six volumes, the text most readers of the whole novel in English use.
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A novel in seven volumes, three of them published after Proust's death, narrated by a man looking back on his life from childhood in Combray to old age in Paris after the First World War. Around him move the Swanns, the Guermantes, the Verdurins, the Baron de Charlus and Albertine, whom the narrator imprisons in his flat and loses. Its subjects are jealousy, snobbery, homosexuality, the Dreyfus affair, the decay of the aristocracy and the war, and above all time. In the last volume a series of involuntary memories reveals to the narrator the book he must write, which is the one just read.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns In Search of Lost Time are verified against each program's published list.
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