Travelling from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec, the narrator meets an intriguing set of acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly, he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin, the mysterious Albertine, who becomes the love of his life.
Travelling from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec, the narrator meets an intriguing set of acquaintances who provide him with both friendship ...
Recalling his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society and looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, the narrator satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations also educates him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood.
Recalling his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society and looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, t...
Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.
Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society...
Far from an idyllic state of affairs, the narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. His obsessive love for her means that their relationship is shadowed by jealousy and headed for tragedy.
Far from an idyllic state of affairs, the narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. His obsessive love for her ...
'In Search of Lost Time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This final part contains notes, addenda and synopses, and a guide to the complete work.
'In Search of Lost Time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This final part cont...
In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention--Albertine, a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive...
In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Ha...
Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.
Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious a...
Begun in 1909, finished just before Proust's death in 1922, many of the novel's ideas, motifs, and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve. His novel has had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century literature, Proust explores the themes of time, space, and memory, but the novel is above all a condensation of innumerable literary, structural, stylistic, and thematic possibilities.
Begun in 1909, finished just before Proust's death in 1922, many of the novel's ideas, motifs, and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfini...
Benjamin, Walter Proust, Marcel Tiedemann-Bartels, Hella
Im Zentrum des Benjaminschen Übersetzens stand, neben Baudelaire, fraglos Marcel Proust, der große Wahlverwandte, dem Benjamin einen seiner inspiriertesten Essays widmete. Sein Verhältnis zu Proust war jedoch zunächst und vor allem das des Dolmetschers. Bereits im Sommer 1925 hatte Benjamin einen Übersetzungsvertrag für "Sodome et Gomorrhe" abgeschlossen, der 1926 - nachdem die Veröffentlichung der deutschen, von Rudolf Schottlaender stammenden Übersetzung des ersten Bandes der "Recherche du temps perdu""ein großes publizistisch-kritisches Fiasko" (Benjamin) gegeben hatte - dahin...
Im Zentrum des Benjaminschen Übersetzens stand, neben Baudelaire, fraglos Marcel Proust, der große Wahlverwandte, dem Benjamin einen seiner inspirie...
Benjamin, Walter Proust, Marcel Tiedemann-Bartels, Hella
Im Zentrum des Benjaminschen Übersetzens stand, neben Baudelaire, fraglos Marcel Proust, der große Wahlverwandte, dem Benjamin einen seiner inspiriertesten Essays widmete. Sein Verhältnis zu Proust war jedoch zunächst und vor allem das des Dolmetschers. Bereits im Sommer 1925 hatte Benjamin einen Übersetzungsvertrag für "Sodome et Gomorrhe" abgeschlossen, der 1926 - nachdem die Veröffentlichung der deutschen, von Rudolf Schottlaender stammenden Übersetzung des ersten Bandes der "Recherche du temps perdu""ein großes publizistisch-kritisches Fiasko" (Benjamin) gegeben hatte - dahin...
Im Zentrum des Benjaminschen Übersetzens stand, neben Baudelaire, fraglos Marcel Proust, der große Wahlverwandte, dem Benjamin einen seiner inspirie...
