The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time--one of the world's most
beloved works of literature
"The greatest literary work of the twentieth century." --The New York
Times
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
Ian Patterson's acclaimed new translation of Finding Time Again
introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches
of Marcel Proust*.* The seventh and final volume in Penguin Classics'
superb new edition of *In Search of Lost Time--*the first completely new
translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more
comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able
to enjoy.
In 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 "Bal
des têtes" sequence, one of Proust's most devastating set pieces,
Finding Time Again 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.