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.
| ISBN: | 9780142437964 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2004 |
| Author: | Marcel Proust |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 496 pages |
| Series: | In Search of Lost Time |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Historical Fiction General Fiction |
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.
Swann's Way features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Historical Fiction, General Fiction
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Swann's Way was written by Marcel Proust and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Swann's Way has 496 pages
Yes it is part of In Search of Lost Time series