In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1
Author: Proust, Marcel
ISBN: 9780099362210
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1997
Pages: 544
Dimensions: 198mm x 132mm x 32mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century
The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century
In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
'Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century' Telegraph
ISBN: 9780099362210
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1997
Pages: 544
Dimensions: 198mm x 132mm x 32mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century
The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century
In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.
'Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century' Telegraph
