In Search of Lost Time: Volume VI: Time Regained & A Guide to Proust

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'Proust is perhaps the last great historian of the loves, the society, the intelligence, the diplomacy, the literature and the art of the Heartbreak House of capitalist culture.' ------------EDMUND WILSON

The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature--his past life. This volume also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, an index to all six volumes of the novel.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.

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Bio of Marcel Prevost

Marcel Prevost was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. From 1907, however, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on the Boulevard Hausman. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of Ala R'ch'rche du Temps Perdu. He died in 1922 before the publication of the last three volumes of his great work.

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Imprint

Modern Library

Filesize

1.13 MB

Number of Pages

640

eBook ISBN

9780679641834