In Search of Lost Time Vol 3 The Guermantes Way

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society.|Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889 however his suffering from chronic asthma the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.|THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations and his experiences with his lover Albertine also educate him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood.|A version that wonderfully proves the greatness of this novel this novelist|What a genius! Whole pages cascade like great jazz slaloms|One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon|It's a novel with zero plot but the narrator's brilliant analyses of everyday experiences more than make up for it. I've never read a better description of what it feels like to fall asleep|The plot is as gripping as any soap opera the jokes come thick and fast...Proust's is a world entire - so why not take it with you anywhere in the world?