Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice.
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, shallow world of the literary and aristocrati…
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, shallow world of the literary and aristocrati…
The "Guermantes Way," refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's chateau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian s…
"The Guermantes way" is the path that runs past the chateau belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. It also represents the path into "the social kaleidoscope" traveled by Proust's narrator, which culminates in his introduction to the Paris salon of the Guermantes. The r…
Remembrance of things past
by Kilmartin, Terence, Moncrieff, C. K. Scott, Proust, Marcel
Remembrance of things past
by Kilmartin, Terence, Proust, Marcel, Moncrieff, C.K. Scott
Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust's masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom an…
"On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator's journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author's lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and …