Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1

Marcel Proust author C K Scott Moncrieff translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:4th Jul '24

£22.00

This title is due to be published on 4th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 cover

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is now regarded as a classic in its own right.

Scott Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of translations which are themselves literary masterpieces ... his book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced -- A. N. Wilson
For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K Scott Moncrieff ... There are some who believe his headily perfumed translation of À la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Époque France more vividly even than the original * Telegraph *
I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation -- Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff

ISBN: 9780241719688

Dimensions: 204mm x 132mm x 40mm

Weight: 750g

1072 pages