IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

Marcel Proust (18711922) is 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 semiinvalid in a soundproofed flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.One of the greatest most entertaining reading experiences in any language Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swanns is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swanns 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. It contains the separate short novel A Love of Swanns 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 and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.Since the original prewar translation Remembrance of Things Past by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin there has been no completely new rendering of Prousts French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged comic and 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 acces...