The Fugitive

<b>The long-awaited penultimate volume--the very summit of Proust's art (<i>Slate</i>)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth<br><br>The greatest literary work of the twentieth century<i>. --The New York Times</i><br><br>A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper</b><br><br>Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of <i>The Fugitive</i> introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust<i>. </i>The sixth and penultimate volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of<i> In Search of Lost Time</i>--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.<br><br>Miss Albertine has left! So begins <i>The Fugitive</i> the second part of what is often referred to as the Albertine cycle or books five and six of <i>In Search of Lost Time.</i> 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.<br><br>For more than seventy-five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2000&#160;titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the&#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date&#160;translations by award-winning translators.