Modern Library Classics: In Search of Lost Time : Proust 6-pack (Paperback)

from MrsRK

I do not mean to sound snobbish, but I can't imagine Marcel Proust read in any other language but French... Reading Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" is like watching Vermeer or el Greco paint one of their masterpieces-I don't know how else to explain its sublimeness. Proust had a talent w...

from Leonard_Seet

More than a commentary on Swann's jealousy or M. Charlus's homosexuality or the frivolity of the Guermantes' sorties, Marcel Proust's monumental work In Search of Lost Time paints the unsuccessful reconstruction of a forgone world and a lost existence from fickle memories, which like morning mist...

from EnriqueFreeque

How does one review Marcel Proust? Does one review the Parthenon or the Pyramids? -- the Taj Mahal? What about the Grand Canyon, Great Wall of China, or Niagara Falls? Can one credibly critique an Albert Einstein, Beethoven, or Vincent Van Gogh? What's that you say? did I hear you correctly? you ...

from GarySeverance

Memories are interactive and define solitude. Proust wrote about his solitude in Remembrance of Things Past, C. K. Scott Moncrieff's title for his translation. I prefer this whimsical translation of the title instead of In Search of Lost Time, Terence Kilmartin's concrete re-translation. The nove...

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In the car I am listening again to Remenbrance of Things Past on CD. I have reached CD number 3 of 39. There is so much there about human nature, behaviour and emotions. There is so much beauty in the writing despite its occasional complexity. There is so much humour deriving from the traits of t...