Product Description

This is a 6 volume box set of the following:
1. THE WAY BY SWANN'S translated by Lydia Davis
2. IN THE SHADOW OF YOUNG GIRLS IN FLOWER translated by James Grieve
3. THE GUERMANTES WAY translated by Mark Treharne
4. SODOM AND GOMORRAH translated by John Sturrock
5. THE PRISONER and THE FUGITIVE translated by Carol Clark and Peter Collier 6.
6. FINDING TIME AGAIN translated by Ian Paterson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #621010 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 6
• Binding: Paperback
• 550 pages

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"In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust is a book that should be read by everyone, especially those with an interest in human perception, snobbishness, the inner self, obsessive love, Modern Art and very long sentences. It is a masterful traverse of French society before and after the First World War, which brilliantly and beautifully illustrates the lingering figures of an aristocracy, which many today might have thought died out with the guillotine. Proust paints his characters as brightly as Toulouse Latrec and as sharply as the previously mentioned blade. The reader will particularly enjoy the narrator's reverence for the deeply fashionable M Swann, his descriptions of the interminable soirees of the drearily nouveau-riche Mme Verdurin, his claustrophobic love for Gilberte/Mme Guermantes/Albertine, and his encyclopaedic wit and wisdom on everything from the stage, fashion trends, the stock market, the telephone, the automobile, and sapphic love, through to hawthorns and those famous little cakes. For those that do not make it to the end the last word is time. What's a million and half words anyway?

Proust expresa un maravilloso retrato del ser humano
Mi autor favorito y uno de los volumenes mas logrados de la serie "En busca del tiempo perdido". Con el descubri una nueva vision literaria, una profundidad en la observacion de los detalles mas minimos que convierte la vida en una suma de instantes, cada uno de particular significado. Creo un deber leer a Proust, la dedicacion y la finura con que escribe es un regalo para el espiritu