eBooks - Education - Literary Studies - Marcel Proust - D. J. Enright - C. Scott Moncrieff - The Guermantes Way
The Guermantes Way eBooks
By: Marcel Proust ~ Editor: D. J. Enright ~ Translator: C. Scott Moncrieff
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The Guermantes Way Summary
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The Guermantes Way is the third volume of Proust's masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu. "The Guermantes Way" refers to the path that runs past the château belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes near Combray and also to the route the narrator takes to make his way into their Parisian salon. He encounters a world of nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts -- individuals like Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino. The narrator becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantes drawing room, an important playground for Parisian society interested in the latest theatrical triumph and the progress of the Dreyfus case. The final volume of a new, definitive text of À la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 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. À la recherche du temps perdu is available from the Modern Library in six volumes.
"[Proust] has supplied for the first time in literature an equivalent in the full scale for the new theory of modern physics." EDMUND WILSON "The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain... And he will I suppose both influence me and make me out of temper with every sentence of my own." "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." |
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eBooks - Titles - Authors - Education - Literary Studies - Marcel Proust - D. J. Enright - C. Scott Moncrieff - The Guermantes Way