Marcel Proust Libri

Nonostante Gustave Flaubert continui, per la maggioranza dei lettori, a essere esclusivamente l'autore di Madame Bovary , L'educazione sentimentale ha meritatamente avuto i riconoscimenti che merita un capolavoro narrativo fondamentale nel romanzo moderno. Storia di una giovinezza consumata nell'amore platonico per una donna sposata e diario delle speranze e delusioni di una generazione che fece la rivoluzione del 1848, il romanzo narra le vicende di Frédéric Moreau, giovane borghese sensibile ma pieno di debolezze, al quale occorrono amici e amanti per sentirsi vivere, giunto a Parigi per studiare legge e fare il suo ingresso nella seducente società di metà Ottocento. Il travaglio politico e sociale di quei giorni affiora dalle pagine del libro, illuminate anche dalla passione e dall'amore per quattro donne, attraverso le quali si compie l'educazione sentimentale del giovane Frédéric, che alla fine rimarrà deluso dall'amore sia dalla politica.

Marcel Proust nacque a Parigi nel 1871. Alla morte della madre, nel 1905, si chiuse definitivamente in se stesso e si dedicò alla scrittura della "Recherche", che si articola in sette romanzi. Il tempo dell'infanzia, la struggente attesa quotidiana del bacio materno, la magia del passato legata alla celebre "madeleine": si apre così la "Ricerca del tempo perduto". La passione di Charles Swann per Odette de Crecy trascina con sé una catena di tormentate riflessioni sull'amore, costantemente sospeso tra il piacere più intenso e i terribili turbamenti della gelosia.

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 creation, and the raw material of literature—his past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin. 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 definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONTime Regained 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 creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life.

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 memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”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 definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection. 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 definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).