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 wars end, Prousts 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.
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. For this authoritative English language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new French editions.
NOTE: This edition does not include the Synopsis of Time Regained or the Guide to Proust. In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
Marcel Proust õ 0 review
Four decades ago, I first read the subject quote in Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal work, In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)