Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 1 (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

Marcel Proust

ISBN 10: 1840221461 / ISBN 13: 9781840221466

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions, 2006

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1840221461-4-35980941

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Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. With an 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.

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Titel: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 1 (...
Verlag: Wordsworth Editions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair