The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Brossura

Proust, Marcel

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ISBN 10: 0143039229 ISBN 13: 9780143039228

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2005

Riassunto

A new translation of the esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons, where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world. Reprint.

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Marcel Proust (1871­–1922) was born in Auteuil, France. In his twenties, following a year in the army, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his chronic asthma, the death of his parents, and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. From 1907 on, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on boulevard Haussmann. There he insulated himself against the distractions of city life and the effects of trees and flowers—though he loved them, they brought on his attacks of asthma. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of In Search of Lost Time.

Mark Treharne (translator) taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator. His translations include the work of Philippe Jaccottet and Jacques Reda’s The Ruins of Paris.

Christopher Prendergast (series editor) is a professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. 

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143039229
• ISBN 13: 9780143039228
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 640
• Redattore: Treharne Mark, Prendergast Christopher