In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI : Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

'Proust is perhaps the last great historian of the loves, the society, the intelligence, the diplomacy, the literature and the art of the Heartbreak House of capitalist culture.' ------------EDMUND WILSON The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature--his past life. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. 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 French editions.NOTE: This edition does not include the Synopsis of "Time Regained" or the Guide to Proust. 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." 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 The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature