The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World
War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris
threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end,
Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the
Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy,
artistic creation, and the raw material for literature - his past life.
This volume also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, an index to
all six volumes of the novel. The final volume of a new, definitive text
of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la
Pleiade in 1989. 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 French
editions.