Marcel Proust
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lythrum salicoria.———————————————————————————————————————————SAMUEL...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria—this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.
—VLADIMIR NABOKOV
In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in...
—VLADIMIR NABOKOV
In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on...
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In search of lost time volume 1
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of "In Search of Lost Time" is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece."--Jacket.
7) The prisoner
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In search of lost time volume 5
Penguin classics deluxe edition
À la recherche du temps perdu volume Book 4
Penguin classics deluxe edition
À la recherche du temps perdu volume Book 4
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Carol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.
The titular "prisoner" is Albertine, the tall, dark...
12) Swann's way
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts contains early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the "sacred moment" when his genius blossomed"--
14) Time regained
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Raul Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. The movie distills all of Marcel Proust's iconic In Search of Lost Time into a single epic feature.