All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. He combined tragic poetical insight with the gift of creating comic characters in the round, like Shakespeare." (Modern Movement) Or, as per Joseph Conrad, "I don't think there has ever been in the whole of literature such an example of the power of analysis." N. In the course of this journey, which the Narrator follows from childhood to mature age, there emerges one of the most extraordinary portraits of French society from the Third Republic to the early 1920s, and an exploration of the human mind whose perceptiveness, subtlety and disturbing honesty remain unmatched to the present day." (Literary Encyclopedia) "Proust's great novel À la recherché du temps perdu is something that happens once in a hundred years. Herb, Author of Remembrance of Things Past Jean Narboni, La nuit sera blanche: Barthes, La Chambre claire, le cinma, Capricci Les Prairies ordinaires. The novel’s seven volumes narrate the Narrator’s long gestation of a novel whose undertaking he continuously defers for the sake of more pressing preoccupations, until, threatened by old age and death, he will eventually heed his calling. Written over more than a decade and considerably altered by the outbreak of World War I and its author’s tragic experience of love and loss, is a work of formidable complexity, both in its radically new conception of time and narrative and in its penetrating analysis of history, man and society. Item #BB1748 First Printing in English (not to be confused with the more common Phoenix Library edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1929). An excellent example (barring light spotting to first few leaves), tightly bound and clean throughout. Publisher's slate blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. Like other volumes published after Proust's death, Time Regained shows signs of a missing final revision, chiefly in minor inconsistencies but it is an. Scott Moncrieff died in February of 1930. Gottlieb, who died June 14 at 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carr and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. With an Introduction by Ingrid Wassenaar. The final volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past has as its themes ageing, illness and death an appropriate (if gloomy) way to bring to an end his narrator's exploration of his life. Translated by Stephen Hudson, who took over English translation of Proust's monumental work after C. Part Eight (complete in one volume) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Copy No.
PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) Time Regained
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