In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way

Proust, Marcel

ISBN 10: 009936221X / ISBN 13: 9780099362210

Edité par Penguin Random House, 1996

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way
• Éditeur: Penguin Random House
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 009936221X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780099362210
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1St Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 0,833 livre

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Synopsis

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.

'Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century' Telegraph

À propos de l?auteur

Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great work.