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Marcel Proust
Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 4.4 | 9778 Users | 788 Reviews
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| Original Title: | À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs |
| ISBN: | 0143039075 (ISBN13: 9780143039075) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039075,00.html?In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower_Marcel_Proust |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #2 |
| Characters: | Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Gilberte Swann, Albertine Simonet, Robert de Saint-Loup, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Goncourt (1919), Премія «Сковорода» (2001) |
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.First time in Penguin Classics
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
The first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s, following Lydia Davis's brilliant translation of Swann's Way
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| Title | : | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (À la recherche du temps perdu #2) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | January 25th 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1913) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature |
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Proust stretches or shrinks time outside of its natural unfolding, and this is undoubtedly what makes it exciting.He can thus fly over weeks in a few lines and dwell on a moment to autopsy on several pages. He rewrites the past as if to give it a present consistency, even if all this is only illusion.Proust is a writer for detail, precision almost obsessive at times. A precision that we had forgotten, occupied that we are running without seeing, and that we rediscover suddenly in amazementsorry, david. this book is better than swann's way. to the extent that i may have to go back and give swann's way three stars so that when i give this book four stars it doesn't make them equals, and, having four books to go, i want to leave room for a five-star anticipation. the first half of swann's way had me understanding what people did not like about proust. there was a lot of me hating on the narrator and gacking over his precious daintiness. this one, though, phoar. it is true it took me
It may have taken me more than a month to finish reading this work, but it was certainly well worth the effort. This novel got better and better as I worked my way to the end. I loved in particular the second part ('Swann in Love') of the first novel (Swann's Way) of 'Remembrance of Things Past', and it was also the second part of Within A Budding Grove (also published as 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower') that captured my attention more than the first part. Overall I prefer this novel to
An Open Letter to Marcel Proust:Sir, thank you for having written what must be known only as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century; a work of genius.Unfortunately, this letter cannot be a letter of exaltation, but a rather a letter of apology. You deserve all the adulation which you have received these past 100 years since the first volume of your novel was published. And the Proust group on goodreads is testimony to the faith which you have properly placed in your readers
I'm certainly no great master of the French language, which must be why I'm completely mystified by how A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs translates to Within a Budding Grove.Good thing I have the ever-trustworthy (....???) C. K. Scott Moncrieff to translate this all for me!--------AAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!I GIVE UP! I mean, not permanently, but for now, yeah, I do. I give UP! I give UP!!! I give up on this Proust! I give up despite this recent line: "I ask you, what in the world can he see in her?
After I finished the first volume of Prousts masterpiece, I did what I always do when I finish a book: I wrote a review. And, in truth, I ended up being a bit harsh and hyperbolic in that review; but I soon came to second-guess myself. For, although I cant say I exactly loved Swanns Way (I liked it), that book had, without my being aware of it, completely undermined everything I thought I knew about fiction. Unconsciously, imperceptibly, my whole concept of the novel had changed. So it feels a
WHY?Or: The Brain on ProustTheres a group of 7 ladies Ive known for quite some time. We meet regularly for afternoon tea, going round turn and turn about, although Barbara has now been excused from hosting in deference to her great seniority and some health issues that come along with the seniority. We have nothing in common except that we are all English native speakers, living here in Germany, and all of us married at one time or another to German husbands. So its only the language that
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