Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Author: Proust, Marcel

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Burgundy/maroon

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• Penguin Books

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 496

Release Date: 30-11-2004

Part Number: 9780142437964

Details: The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.

Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age—satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition—Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.

EAN: 9780142437964

Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English, French