Volumes of which were published in the US by Viking.
Then came the Penguin editions, the first four Otherwise, Remembrance of Things Past seemed mostly unchanged from Regained, greatly improved over the rather lame Blossom version. Pieces of it - notably Andreas Mayor's translation of Time Translators for its 21st century Proust.) When Terence Kilmartin's reworkingĬame out in the 1990s, I bought that three-volume edition, but read only Task, which is probably why Penguin decided to employ seven different (Scott Moncrieff died before finishing his The first six books rendered into English by C K Scott Moncrieff and the That was the handsome, two-volume Random House edition of the novel, Temps perdu?" It pleased me hugely to be able to think, "I did!") Saying: "After all, who has read every word of À la recherche du
(One of the French deconstructionists,Īrguing that one can't just study a novel by itself, because it's aĬollaborative venture between author and reader, cinched his case by Ten years later, I read it again - and aloud - to my wife Egging each other on in thisįashion, we both finished Remembrance of Things Past before the year Smoked(!), and talked about the week's reading. Had a kitchen and bath but wasn't really an apartment). Office where he was a low-level attorney, he stopped by my rented room (it I peeked into Swann's Way two or three times before a pal challenged This website, but I did enjoy Cath Pound's notion that the "Search" is The argument might seem unnecessary to those of you who find your way to More recently, the BBCĭid Proust write the greatest novel of the 20th century? on its website. Young Marcel Proust, the argument being that l'affaire was whatĬaused Proust to rediscover his Jewish heritage. Rekindled: Remembering the Plight of Dreyfuss and the effect it had on the ForĪugust, The American Scholar featured an essay by Robert Zaresky: That's apparently reason enough for a rush of Proustiana this year. Slightly bowlderized title of Swann's Way. Published the first English-language book of the "Search" under the only Proust died in 1922, which was also the year when C K Scott Moncrieff The Audible library (30 days free, then $14.95/month). And of course the Jason narration is available from the usual There's a possibility that Naxos may issue the Whiting Time RegainedĪs an ebook. (The locals would render aĭeclaration of love as "Ish liebe dish.") The word as I learned long ago in Frankfurt. Pronunciation of the names - Bloch, especially, was a revelation,įor Mr Jason pronounces the ch in a mild Germanic way, neitherĬlearing his throat like Peter Sellars in Dr Strangelove nor hissing Is a very convincing narrator, though he goes a bit over the top with When I listen without having something to occupy my eyes, my Reading along with an ebook of that version. To that by Sydney Schiff in 1931, so while the audio played I've been I now have the audio of Mr Whiting's version, which seems very similar Peace and "Remembrance", using the Scott Moncrieff 1920s translationsįor Proust's first six books and a new translation by David Whiting of theįinal book, which Scott Moncrieff did not live long enough to do. Starting in 1987, heīegan to record classics for Naxos, including the whole of War and With Love," the James Bond film with Sean Connery. In film and television dramas, including an appearance in "From Russia Was earlier an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company who later appeared "Remembrance of Things Past", narrated by the late Neville Jason. I discovered last month Naxos Audiobooks has issued what it calls
Things Past but now more accurately titled In Search of Lost Time READING MARCEL PROUST ( In Search of Lost Time in English translation Listening to Time Regained À la recherche du temps perdu, once known as Remembrance of All about the English-language editions of Marcel Proust's great novel,
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