Remembrance Of Things Past Volume I

Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307472328

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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time by Patrick Alexander Pdf

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the fifty most important characters, maps, family trees, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essential for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for students and new readers and a memory-refresher for long-time fans.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987605586

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume.

Author : Marcel Proust,Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679424772

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The Captive by Marcel Proust,Dennis Joseph Enright Pdf

The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1378 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840221461

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Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Pdf

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "la recherche du temps perdu." Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241205952

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Remembrance of Things Past: by Marcel Proust Pdf

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is now regarded as a classic in its own right.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015000787573

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A Reader's Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 4832 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645689

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The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle by Marcel Proust Pdf

Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409019039

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In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2 by Marcel Proust Pdf

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine, who will become the great love of his life.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012311554

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Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of critical essays on Proust's Remembrance of Things Past arranged in chronological order of publication.

Author : Howard Moss
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781589882874

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The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust by Howard Moss Pdf

"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."—John Updike "Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics." —George D. Painter "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." —Publishers Weekly "Remembrance of Things Past is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. Remembrance of Things Past is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." — from Chapter 1 "Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Past—the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 024130069X

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Proust Clothbound Box by Marcel Proust Pdf

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is now regarded as a classic in its own right.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307808554

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Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I by Marcel Proust Pdf

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: The first two volumes of his monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's original English translation was heralded as an artistic achievement in its own right; the later revisions to it by Terence Kilmartin were based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780394711829

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Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I by Marcel Proust Pdf

Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passed—his mother’s good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte—spring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grove—which won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant fame—the narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241205938

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Remembrance of Things Past: by Marcel Proust Pdf

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics. 'Scott Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of translations which are themselves literary masterpieces ... his book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced' - A. N. Wilson 'For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K Scott Moncrieff ... There are some who believe his headily perfumed translation of À la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Époque France more vividly even than the original' - Telegraph 'I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720072086

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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) Volume One- previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past - is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.