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In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way
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The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.

--VLADIMIR NABOKOV

In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, mostÂ Â memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. TheÂ Â recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an accountÂ Â of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. 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 French editions.
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 1992-09-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679600053

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