In Search of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive

by Marcel Proust (Author), Marcel Proust (Author), Marcel Proust (Author), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), D. J. Enright (Translator), D. J. Enright (Primary Contributor)

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1996
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This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic state of affairs. His obsessive love for her means that their relationship is shadowed by jealousy and headed for tragedy.

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This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The Fugitive" - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic state of affairs. His obsessive love for her means that their relationship is shadowed by jealousy and headed for tragedy.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 832
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 Dec 1996
ISBN 10: 0099362619
ISBN 13: 9780099362616
Book Overview: The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century

Media Reviews

Oh if I could write like that! -- Virginia Woolf
One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon * The Times *
Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful... The experience of reading [the book] becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing * Independent *
The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating * Guardian *
There are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives * Daily Mail *

Author Bio

Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.