In Search of Lost Time. The Fugitive. Time Regained
Descriere
Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century – and possibly any other – Proust’s masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation. On the surface a traditional Bildungsroman describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others – Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time.Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.
Despre autor
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust a fost un romancier, eseist și critic francez, cunoscut mai ales datorită romanului În căutarea timpului pierdut, operă monumentală de ficțiune a secolului XX, publicată de Gallimard în șapte volume, redactate vreme de mai bine de 14 ani.
