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

by Proust, Marcel; Treharne, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780143039228
• ISBN10: 0143039229
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-31
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Wayopens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Waydefines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.

Author Biography

Marcel Proust (1871-û1922) was the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century.
Mark Treharne taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator.
Christopher Prendergast is professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King-'s College.