In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5: The Captive, The Fugitive (Modern Library)

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The 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 of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). Review “Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” —Graham Greene Product Description Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge. The Narrator Recounts His Complicated Relationship With Albertine, The Events That Lead To Their Separation, And His Retreat To Venice. The Captive -- The Fugitive. Marcel Proust ; Translated By C.k. Scott Moncrieff And Terence Kilmartin ; Revised By D.j. Enright. Includes Bibliographical References. Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, 1972, called The All-England Summarize Proust Competition. The winner was the contestant who could best summarize A la recherche du temps perdu in fifteen seconds, "once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress." At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. v. 1. Swann's way. v. 2. Within a budding grove. v. 3. The Guermantes way. v. 4. Sodom and Gomorrah. v. 5. The captive, The fugitive. v. 6. Time regained & A guide to Proust