In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
Marcel Proust
Nov 2000 · À la recherche du temps perdu Book 2 · Sold by Modern Library
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Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec become the primary agents of recollection for him.
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.
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.
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February 25, 2012
Reading Proust is like drinking good tea. You don't get drunk quickly and don't get fed up quickly.
"Within a Budding Grove" is a fairly Artsy & Crafty translation of "A l'ombre de jeunes filles en fleur". It is half way between a novel and a meditation on time, love, writing, painting. The descriptions are beautiful and we get sucked into the Proust universe.
I like this story so well, I prepared an adaption of it with the gender of the main characters switched back to their natural and obvious or probable gender, see "In the Shadow of Boys in Bloom - The Little Band".
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December 31, 2015
One of a kind, isn't he? Not much happens on the train ride...except maybe the milk maid and Elstir. Then not much happens in Balbec...except... (wait 'til you are past 40) (or 50). Don't rush it.
About the author
Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.
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