Description
Filled with striking, river-like sentences and plenty of humour, the opening volume of Proust’s modernist masterpiece covers the Narrator’s childhood in Combray – including perhaps the most famous cake-eating scene in the history of fiction – and the tragic love story of their neighbour, Monsieur Swann.
The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century
In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
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VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable editions.
Book Details
Format: |
Paperback |
Number of Pages: |
560 |
ISBN: |
9781784878443 |
Published: |
6 Jul 2023 |
Dimensions: |
130 x 197 x 39 (mm) |
Language: |
English |
