Remembrance of Things Past Volume Two - Couverture souple

Proust, Marcel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184022147X ISBN 13 : 9781840221473

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.

Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Ingrid Wassenaar.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.

Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.

Originally published in seven parts, Wordsworth Editions are unique in offering the complete work in two volumes.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.

Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184022147X
• ISBN 13: 9781840221473
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 1296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible