Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time #7)
Paperback – 432 pages
The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel ProustāsĀ In Search of Lost Timeāone of the worldās most beloved works of literature
āThe greatest literary work of the twentieth century.āĀ āThe New York Times
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper
Ian Pattersonās acclaimed new translation ofĀ Finding Time AgainĀ introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust.Ā The seventh and final volume in Penguin Classics’ superb new edition ofĀ In Search of Lost Timeāthe first completely new translation of Proust’s masterpiece since the 1920sābrings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.
InĀ Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. An exquisite picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing, in the āBal des tĆŖtesāĀ sequence, one of Proustās most devastating set pieces,Ā Finding Time AgainĀ triumphantly describes the paradox of facing mortality yet overcoming it through the act of writing. As Marcel rediscovers his vocation, he realizes that he can live on by writing down the story of his own memories and of his quest to recapture the past.
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