In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive

by Proust, Marcel; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D.J.

• ISBN13: 9780375753114
• ISBN10: 0375753117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-16
• Publisher: Modern Library

Summary

The Modern Library's fifth volume ofIn Search of Lost Timecontains bothThe Captive(1923) andThe Fugitive(1925). InThe Captive, Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. InThe Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions ofA la recherche du temps perdu(the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).

Author Biography

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.

Table of Contents

Biographical Note	p. v
A Note on the Translation (1981)	p. ix
A Note on the Revised Translation (1992)	p. xiii
The Captive	p. 1
The Fugitive
Grieving and Forgetting	p. 563
Mademoiselle de Forcheville	p. 753
Sojourn in Venice	p. 844
New Aspect of Robert de Saint-Loup	p. 891
Notes	p. 939
Addenda	p. 943
Synopsis	p. 951
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