In Search of Lost Time
Book description
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 À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque…
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It’s nearly impossible to talk about time in literary fiction without evoking Marcel Proust, whose seven-volume exploration of involuntary memory is the most comprehensive attempt to bring readers into one narrator’s head I’ve encountered.
Memory, rather than traditional plot, drives In Search of Lost Time. While the prose—translated scrupulously over decades from French—is stylized and often indulgent, Proust’s commitment to the narrator’s inner life brings a singular authenticity to the novel. It’s a book that didn’t just change the way I think about fiction; it changed the way I think about my own mind.
From Kevin's list on literary fiction about the passage of time.
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