The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art"
(Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's
greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth
"The greatest literary work of the twentieth century*." --The New York
Times*
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper
Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive introduces a new
generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel
Proust*.* The sixth and penultimate 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.
"Miss Albertine has left!" So begins The Fugitive, the second part of
what is often referred to as "the Albertine cycle," or books five and
six of In Search of Lost Time. As Marcel struggles to endure
Albertine's departure and vanquish his loss, he ends up in an anguished
search for the essential truth of the enigmatic fugitive, whose love
affairs with other women provoke in him jealousy and a new understanding
of sexuality. Eventually, he lets go of Albertine and begins to find
himself, discovering his own long-lost inner sources of creativity.
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