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Jan 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780143133704 Buy
Jan 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780525505532 Buy
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Jan 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780143133704
Jan 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780525505532
The long-awaited penultimate volume–“the very summit of Proust’s art” (Slate)–in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust’s greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth“The greatest literary work of the twentieth century.” –The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionPeter Collier’s acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The sixth and penultimate 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.“Miss Albertine has left!” So begins The Fugitive, the second part of what is often referred to as “the Albertine cycle,” or books five and six of In Search of Lost Time. As Marcel struggles to endure Albertine’s departure and vanquish his loss, he ends up in an anguished search for the essential truth of the enigmatic fugitive, whose love affairs with other women provoke in him jealousy and a new understanding of sexuality. Eventually, he lets go of Albertine and begins to find himself, discovering his own long-lost inner sources of creativity.
Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second… More about Marcel Proust
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