A world of vivid places and intensely human characters ...the greatest and most rewarding novel of the 20th Century The novel unfolds a lifetime of experiences, which enlarges our understanding of love and nature, memory and snobbery.
- Roger Shattuck,
Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century – and possibly any other – Proust’s masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation. 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 death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others – Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time.
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Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century – and possibly any other – Proust’s masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation.
A world of vivid places and intensely human characters ...the greatest and most rewarding novel of the 20th Century The novel unfolds a lifetime of experiences, which enlarges our understanding of love and nature, memory and snobbery.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781857152500
Publisert
2001-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Everyman's Library
Vekt
3141 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
164 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
3152
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