Books by Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

The third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

Mark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. The third volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

A new translation of the esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons, where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world. 17,500 first printing.

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

A new translation of the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors; and includes the novella, Swann's Love. 17,500 first printing.

Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (Remembrance of Things Past)

by Marcel Proust, Stephane Heuet

At last brought to the U.S., the best-selling comics adaptation of the great classic of French literature that scandalized the French establishment as reported on the front page of the New York Times! Step back into a world of insightful reflection as Proust is brought back, through the legendary magic of the smell of a madeleine, to his youth in a small town of France.

Swann's Way (Penguin Drop Caps)

by Marcel Proust

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a 'B' for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, and a 'C' for Willa Cather's My Ántonia. It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves.

P is for Proust. Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by a taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure in In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age—satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition—Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.

Days of Reading (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Marcel Proust

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

Sodom and Gomorrah takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust’s novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.

The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

For the centennial of Swann's Way: the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled, in a gorgeous deluxe edition

As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry. His verse is often playful, filled with affection and satire, and is peppered with witty barbs at friends and people in his social circle of aristocrats, writers, musicians, and courtesans.

Few of the poems collected here under the editorship of Harold Augenbraum, founder of the Proust Society of America, have ever been published in book form or translated into English until now. In this dual-language edition of new translations, Augenbraum has brought together nineteen renowned poets and poetry translators to bring Proust's exuberant verse back to life.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1

by Marcel Proust

The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed novel

“Carter’s revised edition . . . renews one’s appreciation of Proust. . . . [His] slight but decisive emendations bring the reader closer than ever to the tenor of Proust’s style and diction. . . . A magnificent and enduring achievement.”—Choice

One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and extraordinarily fine translation of the novel from Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. With the passage of time, however, the need for corrections, revisions, and annotations to the Scott Montcrieff translation has become apparent.Esteemed Proust scholar William C. Carter celebrates the publication centennial of Swann’s Way with a new, more accurate and illuminating edition of the first volume of In Search of Lost Time. Carter corrects previous translating missteps to bring readers closer to Proust’s intentions while also providing enlightening notes to clarify biographical, historical, and social contexts. Presented in a reader-friendly format alongside the text, these annotations will enrich and deepen the experience of Proust’s novel, immersing readers in the world of an unsurpassed literary genius.

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)

by Marcel Proust

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantes’s orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. “Flower and plant have no conscious will,” Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust’s representation of sexuality. “They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust’s men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong.”

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).

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)

by Marcel Proust

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).

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s château near Combray. It also represents the narrator’s passage into the rarefied “social kaleidoscope” of the Guermantes’s Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantes’s drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.

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 Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics)

by Marcel Proust

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).

Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI (Modern Library Classics)

by Marcel Proust

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).

Swann's Way - In Search Of Lost Time, Volume I

by Marcel Proust

In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

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).

Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained

by Marcel Proust

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the third and final volume of his monumental achievement, including The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained.

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's original English translation was heralded as an artistic achievement in its own right; the later revisions to it by Terence Kilmartin were based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)

by Marcel Proust

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: The first two volumes of his monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove.

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's original English translation was heralded as an artistic achievement in its own right; the later revisions to it by Terence Kilmartin were based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage)

by Marcel Proust

Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plains)

by Marcel Proust

Set against the backdrop of decadent Parisian high society and the rise of a conservative bourgeoisie that will supplant it, an all-new translation of the fourth volume in In Search of Lost Time explores the theme of homosexual love and the destructive influence of sexual jealousy. 12,000 first printing.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.

--VLADIMIR NABOKOV

In the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.

The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. 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 French editions.

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts

by Marcel Proust

Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation of his masterpiece.

One of the most significant literary events of the century, the discovery of manuscript pages containing early drafts of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time put an end to a decades-long search for the Proustian grail. The Paris publisher Bernard de Fallois claimed to have viewed the folios, but doubts about their existence emerged when none appeared in the Proust manuscripts bequeathed to the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1962. The texts had in fact been hidden among Fallois’s private papers, where they were found upon his death in 2018. The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts presents these folios here for the first time in English, along with seventeen other brief unpublished texts. Extensive commentary and notes by the Proust scholar Nathalie Mauriac Dyer offer insightful critical analysis.

Characterized by Fallois as the “precious guide” to understanding Proust’s masterpiece, the folios contain early versions of six episodes included in the novel. Readers glimpse what Proust’s biographer Jean-Yves Tadié describes as the “sacred moment” when the great work burst forth for the first time. The folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust’s writing, with traces of his family life scattered throughout. Before the existence of Charles Swann, for example, we find a narrator named Marcel, a testament to what one scholar has called “the gradual transformation of lived experience into (auto)fiction in Proust’s elaboration of the novel.”

Like a painter’s sketches and a composer’s holographs, Proust’s folios tell a story of artistic evolution. A “dream of a book, a book of a dream,” Fallois called them. Here is a literary magnum opus finding its final form.

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts

by Marcel Proust

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Letters to His Neighbor

by Marcel Proust

Now in a beautiful paperback edition, Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor, vividly translated by Lydia Davis
Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, Proust’s poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell of his new upstairs neighbor, Dr. Williams, a dentist with a thriving practice directly above his head.
Chiefly to Mme Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, books, or compliments) are frequently hilarious―Proust couches his pained frustration in gracious eloquence. In Lydia Davis’s hands, the digressive brilliance of his sentences shines: “Don’t speak of annoying neighbors, but of neighbors so charming (an association of words contradictory in principle since Montesquiou claims that most horrible of all are 1: neighbors and 2: the smell of post offices) that they leave the constant tantalizing regret that one cannot take advantage of their neighborliness.” Richly illustrated with facsimile letters and photographs, Letters to His Neighbor is catnip for lovers of Proust.

Letters to His Neighbor

by Marcel Proust

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor.
Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell when his neighbor Dr. Williams married a widow with small children.
Chiefly to Mrs. Williams, these ever-polite letters (often accompanied by flowers, compliments, books, even pheasants) are frequently hilarious―Proust couches his fury in a gracious tone. In Lydia Davis’s hands, the digressive brilliance of his sentences shines: “Don't speak of annoying neighbors, but of neighbors so charming (an association of words contradictory in principle since Montesquiou claims that most horrible of all are 1) neighbors 2) the smell of post offices) that they leave the constant tantalizing regret that one cannot take advantage of their neighborliness.”
Proust makes fine distinctions among his auditory torments: “The valet de chambre makes noise and that doesn't matter. But later he knocks with little tiny raps. And that is worse.”
Lydia Davis has written a generous translator’s note, tracing much of what we can know about Proust’s perpetually dark room; she details the furnishings as well as the life he lived there: burning his powders, talking with friends, hiring musicians, and, most of all, suffering. Letters to His Neighboris richly illustrated with facsimile letters and photographs―catnip for lovers of Proust.
With an Introduction by Jean-Yves Tadié and a translator’s note by Lydia Davis.

In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Modern Library Classics)

by Marcel Proust

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 À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

French Classics in French and English: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (Dual-Language Book) (French Edition)

by Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Alexander Vassiliev

This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. See more details about this and other books on French Classics in French and English page on Facebook.

Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One) (Remembrance of Things Past, 1)

by Marcel Proust

When the narrator of Swann’s Way dips a petite madeleine into hot tea, the act transports him to his childhood in the French town of Combray. Out of his Pandora’s box of reflections comes a memory of an old family friend, Swann—a man who was long ago undone by romantic desire and cruel reality. In this reverie lie the insights the author seeks about his own life and ageless truths about the ephemeral nature of emotions, places, and, ultimately, love.
A masterful ode to memory’s power to haunt the heart and nourish the soul, this first volume of Proust’s magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time, remains an unmatched accomplishment in the Western literary canon.
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Revised edition: Previously published as Swann's Way, this edition of Swann's Way (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel

by Marcel Proust

New York Times Bestseller
Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece.
"Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth," wrote Graham Greene. "For those who began to write at the end of the twenties or the beginning of the thirties, there were two great inescapable influences: Proust and Freud, who are mutually complementary." With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging literary experiences. Influencing writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and even anticipating Albert Einstein in its philosophical explorations of space and time, In Search of Lost Time is a monumental achievement and a virtual rite of passage for any serious lover of literature.
Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be "likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score," the French illustrator Stéphane Heuet re-presents Proust in graphic form for anyone who has always dreamed of reading him but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. This graphic adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Proust’s work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novel's themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory. As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, the compression required by this kind of adaptation As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, "the reader new to Proust must attend closely, even in this compressed rendering, to the novel's circling rhythms and abrupt cross-cuts between different places and times. But this necessary attentiveness is abetted and facilitated by the compactness of the graphic format.”
In this first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator Marcel, an aspiring writer, recalls his childhood when―in a now immortal moment in literature―the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea unleashes a torrent of memories about his family’s country home in the town of Combray. Here, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust's own famously rich and labyrinthine sentences and discerning observations to render Combray like never before. From the water lillies of the Vivonne to the steeple and stained glass of the town church, Proust's language provides the blueprint for Heuet's illustrations. Heuet and Goldhammer also capture Proust's humor, wit, and sometimes scathing portrayals of Combray's many memorable inhabitants, like the lovelorn Charles Swann and the object of his affection and torment, Odette de Crécy; Swann's daughter Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator's uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Léonie.
Including a Proust family tree, a glossary of terms, and a map of Paris, this graphic adaptation is a surprising and useful companion piece to Proust’s masterpiece for both the initiated and those seeking an introduction.

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel

by Marcel Proust

With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Proust’s oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences. Influencing writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and even anticipating Albert Einstein in its philosophical explorations of space and time, In Search of Lost Time is a monumental achievement and reading it is a rite of passage for any serious lover of literature.
Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be “likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score,” the French illustrator Stéphane Heuet re-presents Proust in graphic form for anyone who has always dreamed of reading him but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. This New York Times best-selling graphic adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Proust’s work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novel’s themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory. As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, “The reader new to Proust must attend closely, even in this compressed rendering, to the novel’s circling rhythms and abrupt cross-cuts between different places and times. But this necessary attentiveness is abetted and facilitated by the compactness of the graphic format.”
In this first volume, Swann’s Way, the narrator Marcel, an aspiring writer, recalls his childhood when―in a now-immortal moment in literature―the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea unleashes a torrent of memories about his family’s country home in the town of Combray. Here, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust’s own famously rich and labyrinthine sentences and discerning observations to render Combray like never before. From the water lilies of the Vivonne to the steeple and stained glass of the town church, Proust’s language provides the blueprint for Heuet’s illustrations. Heuet and Goldhammer also capture Proust’s humor, wit, and sometimes scathing portrayals of Combray’s many memorable inhabitants, like the lovelorn Charles Swann and the object of his affection and torment, Odette de Crécy; Swann’s daughter, Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator’s uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Léonie.
Including a Proust family tree, a glossary of terms, and a map of Paris, this graphic adaptation is a surprising and useful companion piece to Proust’s masterpiece for both the initiated and those seeking an introduction.

In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Vol. 2)

by Marcel Proust

Celebrated as a “literary gateway drug” to Proust’s masterpiece (NPR), the New York Times–best-selling graphic adaptation continues with this highly anticipated new volume.
In what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer called “a piano reduction of an orchestral score,” the first volume of Stéphane Heuet’s adaptation of In Search of Lost Time electrified the graphic community like no other―re-presenting the novel for anyone who has always dreamed of reading Proust but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. Whereas the first volume described the narrator’s childhood in the pastoral town of Combray, the second volume portrays the narrator’s foray into adolescence, set in the opulent seaside resort of Balbec. Preserving Proust’s original dissection of the spontaneity of youth, translator Laura Marris captures the narrator’s infatuation with his playmates―his memories of their intoxicating afternoons together unfolding as if in a dream. Featuring some of Proust’s most memorable characters―from mysterious Charlus to beguiling young Albertine―this second volume becomes a necessary companion piece for any lover of modern literature. Full color

Swann's Way (New York Review Books Classics)

by Marcel Proust

Now available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes that constitute Marcel Proust’s lifework, In Search of Lost Time, introduces the larger themes of the whole work while standing on its own as a brilliant evocation of childhood, hopeless love, and the French Belle Époque.

We first encounter Proust’s narrator in middle age, consumed with regret for his misspent life. Suddenly, he is back in the past, seized by memories of childhood: his clinging attachment to his mother, his dread of his father, summers in the country and the two walks his family was in the habit of taking—one by an aristocratic estate, the other by the house of a certain Charles Swann, to whom a mystery was attached. A child’s world, and the world of adults the child struggles to imagine, spread out before us, while Proust’s pages teem with incident and puzzlement, pathos and humor.

The novel then takes a further step backwards to tell the story of Swann’s infatuation with the courtesan Odette. Swann, man-about-town and familiar of royalty, is reduced to walking after midnight, forlorn as a child awaiting a goodnight kiss.

James Grieve began his career translating Proust in the early 1970s, driven by his dismay at how many readers recoiled from what they imagined to be the difficulty of Proust’s work, and his translation of Swann’s Way brings out the book’s fluency and speed as no other version does. It offers an unequaled introduction to an incomparably absorbing work of art.

Swann in Love, Deluxe Edition: The witty novella that's the perfect introduction to Proust

by Marcel Proust

A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust’s masterpiece—an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy—delivers the most memorable reading experience

A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English—and since Proust died—Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust’s style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s great novelists.

When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crécy, her beauty leaves him indifferent. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.

Swann in Love (Pushkin Press Classics)

by Marcel Proust

Stunning new edition of the standalone novella from Proust’s great masterpiece – an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy

This landmark new translation commemorates a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English — and since Proust died

Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust’s style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s great novelists.

When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crécy, her beauty leaves him indifferent. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.

Pleasures and Days (Hesperus Classics)

by Marcel Proust

A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Days provides an early glimpse into Proust’s genius as a collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Set amid the salon society of fin-du-siècle Paris, these sketches and short stories depict the lives, loves, manners, and motivations of a host of characters, all viewed with a famously knowing eye. By turns cuttingly satirical and bitterly moving, Proust’s portrayals are layered with imagery and feeling—whether they be of the aspiring Bouvard and Pécuchet, the deluded Madame de Breyves, or of Baldassare Silvande, steeped in memories, regret, and final understanding at the end of his life. Novelist Marcel Proust was a prominent figure in the French salons of the late 19th century; he is best remembered for his seven-volume masterpiece In Search of Lost Time.

Chardin and Rembrandt (ekphrasis)

by Marcel Proust

Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when he was only twenty-four years old, not only reemphasizes the importance of visual art to his development, but contains the seeds of his later work.

Proposed in 1895 by Proust to the newspaper Revue hebdomadaire (it was rejected), this essay is much more than a straightforward piece of art criticism. It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.

Published for the first time as a stand-alone volume and newly translated, this edition, part of the David Zwirner Books ekphrasis series, aims to introduce a wider audience to one of Proust’s most important and influential works in Western literature. “For the true artist,” as Proust writes, “as for the natural scientist, every type is interesting, and even the smallest muscle has its importance.” The same could be said of the author’s own work—every essay has its own crucial place in the formation of his groundbreaking oeuvre.

The afterword by renowned Proust scholar Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat, originally published in the French by Le Bruit du Temps, is an impassioned argument in favor of returning to the lost paths of Proust’s early thinking. It sees, in the passage from Chardin’s world of objects to Rembrandt’s contemplative paintings, a movement toward the radical interiority for which Proust would later become widely celebrated as a novelist. Written at the beginning of his literary career, Chardin and Rembrandt gestures back to some of Proust’s earliest notes on art, while creating space for what was to come.

albertine_disparue

by Marcel Proust

Albertine Disparue, dont le titre original est La fugitive, est le sixième tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust paru en 1927 à titre posthume. la Fugitive devait originairement regrouper la Prisonnière et Albertine disparue. De fait, Albertine disparue est la suite indissociable, sur le plan narratif au moins, de la Prisonnière.

A la recherche du temps perdu Le Temps retrouvé

by Marcel Proust

Les parties blanches de barbes jusque-là entièrement noires rendaient mélancolique le paysage humain de cette matinée, comme les premières feuilles jaunes des arbres alors qu'on croyait encore pouvoir compter sur un long été, et qu'avant d'avoir commencé d'en profiter on voit que c'est déjà l'automne. Alors moi qui depuis mon enfance, vivant au jour le jour et ayant reçu d'ailleurs de moi-même et des autres une impression définitive, je m'aperçus pour la première fois, d'après les métamorphoses qui s'étaient produites dans tous ces gens, du temps qui avait passé pour eux, ce qui me bouleversa par la révélation qu'il avait passé aussi pour moi. Et indifférente en elle-même, leur vieillesse me désolait en m'avertissant des approches de la mienne.

A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Pleiade Ser. : Tome 4)

by Marcel Proust

Fourth volume of the magnificent Pleiade Series edition of Proust's masterpiece. In French. Leatherbound. Contains copious scholarly notes and additions.

A la recherche du temps perdu, Vol. 1 (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)

by Marcel Proust

Cette édition d'À la recherche du temps perdu présente l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust sous un jour entièrement nouveau. Les trente ans qui nous séparent de l'édition précédente ont permis de connaître un ensemble de documents uniques au monde, et que nous sommes seuls à pouvoir offrir au lecteur. Ainsi, dans ce volume, à la suite de Du côté de chez Swann et de la première partie d'À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, on lira un choix très large d'esquisses tirées des cahiers de brouillon qui donnèrent naissance au texte définitif, seul connu du public jusqu'à ce jour : quatre cents pages, qui ont déjà la beauté de l'oeuvre achevée mais gardent le charme propre aux commencements, et font découvrir de nombreux faits, de nombreuses idées, de nombreux personnages inconnus. Ces inédits et ceux que l'on trouvera dans les variantes du volume composent une véritable biographie littéraire. Au service de ce dessein, un appareil critique réunit la documentation la plus complète possible et permet de comprendre les allusions les plus énigmatiques. Le texte lui-même a été réétabli grâce à des documents dont nous disposions pour la première fois : il est désormais plus proche de ce que souhaitait son auteur. Roman comique, roman tragique, roman d'aventures, roman érotique, roman poétique, roman onirique, roman d'une expérience unique, somme de tous les romans et de deux mille ans de littérature, À la recherche du temps perdu est devenu un monument historique. Mais c'est un monument encore habité.

A la recherche du temps perdu

by Marcel Proust

Volume IDu côté de chez SwannCombrayLe narrateur raconte son enfance à Combray, la relation à sa mère dont il réclame la présence le soir avant de se coucher. Il évoque ses premières lectures, notamment François le Champi de George Sand. On voit se dessiner l'univers culturel et affectif d'un personnage dont on va suivre la vie et l'évolution.Un amour de SwannC'est un roman dans l'œuvre. On peut le lire indépendamment des autres parties. Il s'agit d'un retour en arrière dans la vie de Charles Swann. Sa rencontre chez les Verdurin avec celle qui sera sa femme, Odette, et surtout sa jalousie maladive. La narration se fait à la première personne, mais comme les évènements décrits se déroulent avant la naissance du narrateur, celui-ci raconte le récit à la troisième personne.Noms de pays : le nomCette partie évoque les rêveries du narrateur, ses envies de voyage, lui à qui la maladie interdit jusqu'à une sortie au théâtre. C'est donc à travers les horaires des trains qu'il voit Balbec et surtout Venise. À cette partie fait écho la partie «Noms de pays : le pays» de À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Ce parallélisme souligne la déception naissant de la confrontation du rêve à la réalité brute.A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1ère partie)Autour de Mme SwannDans cette 1ère partie, le narrateur parle de ses relations à Paris, celles avec M. de Norpois ou encore avec son idole littéraire Bergotte. Il va aussi pour la première fois au théâtre où il voit enfin l'actrice qu'il aime tant, la Berma, interprétant Phèdre de Racine. On y lit ses déceptions incomprises par les autres vis-à-vis de sa première vision théâtrale. Puis, il se fait introduire chez les Swann. Il décrit alors ses relations avec Gilberte Swann et ses parents : Odette de Crécy et Charles Swann.Volume IIA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (2ème partie)Noms de pays : le paysArrivé dans la contrée dont il a tant voulu voir les cathédrales, le narrateur s'installe dans un hôtel avec sa grand-mère. Dabord, ne connaissant personne, sa vie est solitaire. Il ne parle à personne hormis sa grand-mère, bien qu'il en ait très envie. Mais, de relations en relations, fréquentant Robert de Saint-Loup et le peintre Elstir (artiste ami des Verdurin dont il est question dans Un amour de Swann), il finit par se lier d'amitié avec les jeunes filles qu'il observait depuis longtemps : Albertine, Andrée, Rosemonde... Il tombe amoureux d'Albertine qu'il essaie de rendre jalouse en se rapprochant d'Andrée.Le côté de GuermantesLe narrateur et sa famille déménagent dans l'hôtel des Guermantes. Il se rend alors au théâtre afin de voir, pour la seconde fois, La Berma dans le rôle de Phèdre, mais cette nouvelle occasion de voir une artiste qui lui avait «causé tant d'agitation» ne l'émeut plus. Il eegarde la princesse de Saxe qui se trouve en compagnie de Mme de Guermantes. Se sentant favorisé par un sourire qui lui est discrètement adressé, il ressent le désir de revoir Mme de Guermantes, et s'arrange pour la croiser tous les jours lors de ses promenades matinales. Fatiguée de devoir quotidiennement saluer cet importun, Mme de Guermantes le prend en horreur, ce qui attriste le narrateur, incapable de rompre son.habitude, qu'il sait pourtant pernicieuse pour tous deux.Volume IIISodome et GomorrheAprès avoir rendu visite au duc et la duchesse de Guermantes, le narrateur se prépare à aller chez la princesse. Il est retenu par le spectacle de la rencontre de M. de Charlus et d'un boutiquier de l'hôtel de Guermantes, qui tombent amoureux. La découverte de l'inversion sexuelle suscite chez lui un grand bouleversement. La prisonnièreDe retour à Paris, le narrateur héberge Albertine. Sa présence est tenue secrète car il veut empêcher qu'elle entre en contact avec des gomorrhéennes ou d'autres hommes. Il voit peu de monde et fait accompagner Albertine par Andrée, en qui il a tconfiance, ou par un chauffeur dévoué. Le soir, ils se retrouvent en des tête-à-tête de plus en plus tendus et fantasmatiques. Pendant cette période, il se rend à une soirée chez les Verdurin où il pense trouver Mlle Vinteuil. Celle-ci est absente mais on joue une symphonie composée par son père. Cette symphonie réveille chez lui une aspiration vers l'absolu qu'il avait depuis longtemps abandonnée.Volume IVAlbertine disparueAu cours du 1er chapitre, le narrateur essaie de faire revenir Albertine chez lui par tous les moyens. Mais ses efforts sont vains ; Albertine meurt dans un accident de cheval. Le narrateur apprend qu'Albertine avait décidé de revenir vivre auprès de lui. L'oubli fait alors progressivement son œuvre, atténuant sa souffrance. Le narrateur revoit alors Gilberte Swann, son ancien amour de Combray, devenue Mlle de Forcheville. Cette rencontre est d'autant plus forte qu'il n'hésite pas à comparer son oubli progressif de Gilberte à celui qui le menace quant à Albertine. De fait, à la fin du chapitre II, son amour pour Albertine n'est plus ; il peut désormais partir pour Venise, puisque seule la présence réelle ou virtuelle d'Albertine l'en empêchait.Le temps retrouvéLe narrateur séjourne à Tansonville chez Gilberte et Robert de Saint-Loup. Gilberte lui apprend qu'elle était tombée amoureuse de lui à Combray. Cela le laisse sentimentalement indifférent mais sa vision du passé en est bouleversée. A la lecture du Journal des Goncourt que lui prête Gilberte, il constate son absence de dispositions pour les lettres en même temps que son indifférence à l'égard de la littérature. Après quelques années en maison de santé, le narrateur rentre deux fois à Paris pendant la 1ière Guerre mondiale. Il constate l'évolution des personnes qu'il connaît bien et les transformations que la guerre provoque dans la haute société : le salon de Mme Verdurin est devenu l'un des lieux éminents de Paris, ses amis publient des articles creux et patriotiques, Saint-Loup est devenu sur le front un glorieux meneur d'hommes.

Du Cote de Chez Swann.

by Marcel Proust

Le Narrateur se souvient de l'enfant qu'il fut. L'attente du baiser maternel du soir, les déjeuners du dimanche chez tante Léonie, les cadeaux de la grand-mère. Il est fasciné par M. Swann, un ami de ses parents, amoureux fou d'une femme qui aime tout le monde sauf lui. Il tombe amoureux de sa fille, Gilberte, qui ne le rendra pas plus heureux. A travers ces scènes de vies - intimes ou mondaines, tragiques ou comiques - passent des impressions, des parfums, des visions. Des nymphéas à la surface d'une rivière, une madeleine oubliée dans une tasse de thé, des catleyas dans les cheveux d'une femme aimée, une bille d'agate offerte en gage d'amitié... Mais, une fois adulte, comment demeurer cet enfant émerveillé dans un monde que l'on ne reconnait plus, où l'amour est souffrance, où le désir est jalousie, où "le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant" ? Réminiscences de l'enfance perdue, roman d'amour impossible, satire de la haute société emprisonnée dans l'éphémère de la mode, mais aussi étude philosophique sur la mémoire involontaire : Du côté de chez Swann est tout cela à la fois. Qu'est-ce qu'un chef-d'oeuvre ? Un palais du souvenir, aux mille portes d'entrée, où chaque lecteur éprouve une émotion singulière, toujours renouvelée.

À la recherche du temps perdu: A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (suite). Le côté de Guermantes. Esquisses

by Marcel Proust

Ce volume contient la deuxième partie d'À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, "Noms de pays : le pays" et Le Côté de Guermantes. Il marque ainsi le passage de la rêverie au réel. "Noms de pays : le pays " fait écho à "Noms de pays : le nom" et affronte à la poésie du nom de Balbec la réalité du lieu, comme Le Côté de Guermantes dévoile les Guermantes-personnages après que le narrateur a rêvé sur Guermantes-nom de personne. C'est à Balbec qu'apparaît la petite bande des jeunes filles pour qui le héros éprouve un amour "indivis", avant qu'Albertine ne vienne rompre, en émergeant du groupe, la cohésion où se neutralisaient "les diverses ondes sentimentales" que propageaient les jeunes filles. À Balbec que le narrateur rencontre le peintre Elstir, dont la conversation se fait leçon : d'où naît un nouveau pouvoir de regarder, une façon nouvelle de voir, grâce à cette métamorphose qu'est l'art, la beauté des choses là où il était impossible d'imaginer qu'elle fût. À Balbec encore que se dessinent les figures de Mme de Villeparisis, de Robert de Saint-Loup, du baron de Charlus, que Le Côté de Guermantes replacera dans leur contexte social et qui, avec d'autres, feront de cette partie d'À la recherche du temps perdu le roman de l'aristocratie, comme Du côté de chez Swann était celui de la bourgeoisie ; temps et lieu de la mort de l'enfance et de l'oubli de l'art - ramené à quelques apparitions mondaines -, Le Côté de Guermantes voit s'effacer, dans la mort, la maladie ou l'absence, les personnages combraysiens et s'ouvrir devant le narrateur ce monde neuf - le Monde - où s'abîment les illusions. On découvrira, à la suite des textes et sur plus de 400 pages, les versions primitives de "Noms de pays : le pays" et du Côté de Guermantes. Leur intérêt et leur richesse ne sont plus à démontrer. Il n'est que de rappeler la réponse d'Elstir à son jeune visiteur admirant une de ses toiles, Le Port de Carquehuit : "J'ai fait une petite esquisse où on voit bien mieux la cernure de la plage. Le tableau n'est pas trop mal, mais c'est autre chose."

A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu (French Edition)

by Marcel Proust

L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une œuvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, œuvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs

by Marcel Proust

B&R Samizdat Express edition with active table of contents

The second volume of Proust's masterpiece, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927... Begun in 1909, À la recherche du temps perdu consists of seven volumes spanning some 3,200 pages and teeming with more than 2,000 literary characters. Graham Greene called Proust the "greatest novelist of the 20th century", and W. Somerset Maugham called the novel the "greatest fiction to date." Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the final volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert."

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

by Marcel Proust

One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales. Includes a new translation of the complete text of Pleasures and Days, Proust's only short-story collection, and six tales previously uncollected and never before available in English.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

by Marcel Proust

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (In Search of Lost Time, 3)

by Marcel Proust

An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust’s monumental seven‑part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the author’s original text.

Continuing the story begun in Swann’s Way and continued in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way follows Proust’s young protagonist as he advances through aristocratic French society in late‑nineteenth‑century Paris. A departure from the intimacy of the sprawling novel’s previous two installments, part three unfolds against a colorful backdrop of Parisian life, moving from literary salon to opulent social gathering to provide a biting and satirical commentary on culture, human foibles, the ways of the world, and the irretrievable loss of time.

Swann's Way (Vintage Classics)

by Marcel Proust

From the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through art and memory.

Swann’s Way is the most frequently read part of Proust’s epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte, Swann’s jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust’s narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother’s good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.

Le Côté de Guermantes

by Marcel Proust

Nouvelle édition en un volume en 1994. Nouvelle mise en page

Swann in Love (Oxford World's Classics)

by Marcel Proust

Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human beings when in the grip of desire. Swann is a highly cultured man-about-town who is plunged into turmoil when he falls for a young woman called Odette de Crecy. The novel traces the progress of Swann's emotions with penetrating exactitude as he encounters Odette at the regular gatherings in the salon of the Verdurins. His wilful self-delusion is both poignant and comic, and his tormented feelings play out in scenes of high comedy amongst Odette's socially pretentious circle.

Swann in Love is part of Proust's monumental masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, and it is also a captivating self-contained story. This new translation encapsulates the qualities that have secured Proust's reputation, and serves as a perfect introduction to his writing.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

The long-awaited fifth volume--representing "the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of "the greatest literary work of the twentieth century" (The New York Times)

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

Carol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.

The titular "prisoner" is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family's apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel's judgmental family servant, Françoise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine's relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying her couture gowns, furs, and jewelry in an attempt to protect her from herself and from the outside world and. And yet in addition to being a tragedy of possessive love, The Prisoner is also a comedy of human folly and misunderstanding, linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences, art, irrationality, social snobbery, and, of course, time and memory.

For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU.TOME VI.LA PRISONNIERE.

by Marcel Proust

"Je pouvais mettre ma main dans sa main, sur son épaule, sur sa joue, Albertine continuait de dormir. Je pouvais prendre sa tête, la renverser, la poser contre mes lèvres, entourer mon cou de ses bras, elle continuait à dormir comme une montre qui ne s'arrête pas, comme une bête qui continue de vivre quelque position qu'on lui donne, comme une plante grimpante, un volubilis qui continue de pousser ses branches quelque appui qu'on lui donne. Seul son souffle était modifié par chacun de mes attouchements, comme si elle eût été un instrument dont j'eusse joué et à qui je faisais exécuter des modulations en tirant de l'une, puis de l'autre de ses cordes, des notes différentes."

On Reading (On Series)

by John Ruskin, Marcel Proust

"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them."

Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world’s most inspirational minds.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2

by Marcel Proust

Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.

It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame. Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann’s Way moves further through childhood and into adolescence, as the author brilliantly examines themes of love and youth, in settings in Paris and by the sea in Normandy. The reader again encounters Swann, now married to his former mistress and largely fallen from high society, and meets for the first time several of Proust’s most memorable characters: the handsome, dashing Robert de Saint-Loup, who will become the narrator’s best friend; the enigmatic Albertine, leader of the “little band” of adolescent girls; the profoundly artistic Elstir, believed to be Proust’s composite of Whistler, Monet, and other leading painters; and, making his unforgettable entrance near the end of the volume, the intense, indelible Baron de Charlus.

Permeated by the “bloom of youth” and its resonances in memories of love and friendship, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower takes readers into the heart of Proust’s comic and poetic genius. As with Swann’s Way, Carter uses C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s beloved translation as the basis for this annotated and fully revised edition. Carter corrects long-standing errors in Scott Moncrieff’s otherwise superlative translation, bringing it closer than ever to the spirit and style of Proust’s original text—and reaching English readers in a way that the Pléiade annotations cannot. Insightful and accessible, Carter’s edition of Marcel Proust’s masterwork will be the go-to text for generations of readers seeking to understand Proust’s remarkable bygone world.

Finding Time Again In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time—one of the world’s most beloved works of literature

“The greatest literary work of the twentieth century.” —The New York Times

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper

Ian Patterson’s acclaimed new translation of Finding Time Again introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The seventh and final volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.

In Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. An exquisite picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing, in the “Bal des têtes” sequence, one of Proust’s most devastating set pieces, Finding Time Again triumphantly describes the paradox of facing mortality yet overcoming it through the act of writing. As Marcel rediscovers his vocation, he realizes that he can live on by writing down the story of his own memories and of his quest to recapture the past.

In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

by Marcel Proust, Charlotte Mandell

'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.'

In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator's youth and adolescence. From the enclosed spaces of the fin-de-siècle social world that revolves around Madame Swann, we move to the fictional town of Balbec on the Normandy coast, a place where the social classes intermingle with mutual fascination. Against the ever-changing backdrop of the sea--a constant reminder of beauty, mutability, and the vastness of the world beyond individual human affairs--the narrator encounters individuals who will shape his experience and indelibly colour his outlook on that world. He finds a friend in the aristocratic Robert de Saint-Loup and is perplexed by his enigmatic uncle the Baron de Charlus; he finds a tutelary figure in Elstir, the gifted, idiosyncratic painter; and in Albertine he comes to recognise the blossoming girl who will become the love--and the bane--of his life.

The novel provides a breath-taking illumination of what it is to encounter beauty and to seek to understand our relation to it, in people, in experiences, in art, or the landscape around us. An exploration of the thrills of infatuation, the fallibility of perception, and how desire builds and ebbs, the narrative prepares readers for the love affair that will define the narrator's future existence and shape the volumes of In Search of Lost Time to come.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Por el Camino de Swann (en Busca Del Tiempo Perdido) / Swann's Way: in Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

LLEGA A ALFAGUARA UNA DE LAS OBRAS CUMBRE DE LA LITERATURA UNIVERSAL DEL SIGLO XX

La gran saga narrativa sobre la memoria, el Tiempo y los paraísos perdidos

«Su talento es para caer postrado».--Javier Marías

«Durante años me acosté temprano...».

Así comienza En busca del tiempo perdido, considerada una obra maestra de la literatura universal, y una de las más influyentes en los ámbitos de las letras, el arte y la filosofía. Publicada en siete entregas, la primera de ellas, Por el camino de Swann, vio la luz en 1913. Esta nueva traducción de Mercedes López-Ballesteros, apadrinada por el escritor Javier Marías, quien llegó a leer entusiasmado la primera parte, es exacta, fiel y de gran aliento, y transmite certeramente el famoso estilo proustiano. En estas páginas deslumbran al lector las evocaciones de la infancia del narrador, sus inteligentes digresiones, los agudos diálogos y el retrato de personajes inolvidables, entre los que destaca Charles Swann. Alabado tanto por su estilo como por sus aportaciones estéticas, en este primer volumen de la saga ya se apuntan los grandes temas que preocupaban a Proust: el arte, la memoria, la naturaleza humana y, por supuesto, el Tiempo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.

Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age--satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition--Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.

The Swann Way

by Marcel Proust

'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...'

The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story of his life and the paths he takes towards fulfilling his vocation as a writer. Principally focused on the narrator's childhood, this volume lays the foundation of Proust's extraordinary literary edifice.

The first volume in a major new translation of In Search of Lost Time, co-edited by Brian Nelson and Adam Watt.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Swann In Love

by Marcel Proust

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time highlighting love’s transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.

Swann in Love is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features the classic English language translation from French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and is introduced by Marion Schmid.

Charles Swann is a man-about-town with friends in high places. At Parisian society gatherings hosted by the wealthy Verdurin couple, he meets the intriguing Odette de Crécy. Though struck by how different they are, Swann’s feelings for Odette deepen. As the Verdurin circle expands, he is overcome by doubts and unhealthy jealousies. Odette distances herself, and Swann is convinced he has a rival for her affections. Behaving erratically and tortured by spiralling thoughts, Swann’s love becomes a sickly poison.

This edition is translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff with an introduction by Marion Schmid.