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Remembrance of Things Past (collective work) (edit title/settings)

Swann's Way / Within a Budding Grove / The Guermantes Way / Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) / The Captive / The Fugitive / Time Regained

by Marcel Proust (Author) (edit contributors)

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"A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" is one of the most magnificent achievements of the novelists' art (and there have been many). It's historically great in its scope -- as grand in that way as "War and Peace" -- although it's set in belle epoque France, not the Russia of the Napoleonic era. It's... read more

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  1. Swann's Way

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new...

  2. Within a Budding Grove

    or, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time , the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to...

  3. The Guermantes Way

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time , The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant,...

  4. Sodom and Gomorrah

    or, Cities of the Plain

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    Sodom and Gomorrah—now in a superb translation by John Sturrock—takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust’s novel is also an unforgiving...

  5. The Captive

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    Adult/High School-This unusual pairing of literary forms offers the ornate and reflective prose of Proust retold within a graphic-novel format. In adapting a portion of the writer's massive, pathologically contemplative roman-fleuve, Heuet...

  6. The Fugitive

    or, Albertine Gone, or, The Sweet Cheat Gone

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    Text: French

  7. Time Regained

    or, The Past Recaptured, or, Finding Time Again

    by Marcel Proust (Author)

    Time Regained , the final volume of In Search of Lost Time , begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic...

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  • Marcel: We are meant to assume this is Marcel Proust himself, although the work is a novel, not an autobiography. (And most of Proust's scholars and fans do make that assumption; this is the novel of Proust's own life.)
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  • “The past is hidden outside the realm of our intelligence and beyond its reach, in some material object (in the sensation that this material object would give us) which we do not suspect. It depends on chance whether we encounter this object before we die, or do not encounter it.”
    Marcel

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This is book 33 of 97 in Waterstone's Top 100 Books of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
This is book 4 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)
This book is in In Search of Lost Time. (standard series)
This is book 2 of 99 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century. (authoritative list)
This is book 911 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

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  1. Marcel Proust (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)
  2. Terence Kilmartin (Translator)
  3. Andreas Mayor (Translator)

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Publication Date: 1934
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Page Count: 3500

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