Remembrance Of Things Past. Volume 2
Remembrance Of Things Past. Volume 2
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Author
Author
Marcel Proust / Марсель Пруст
Dimension
Dimension
129x198mm (5,1'x7,8')
ISBN
ISBN
9781840221473
Format
Format
Paperback
Language
Language
English
Page Count
Page Count
1296
Publisher
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Year of book publication
Year of book publication
2006
Remembrance Of Things Past. Volume 2
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.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author: Marcel Proust - Марсель Пруст
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Number of pages: 1296 pst
Format: Paperback
Width: 129 mm / 5,1'
Height: 198 mm / 7,8'
ISBN: 9781840221473