
In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
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 definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
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1871–1922
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust était un romancier, critique littéraire et essayiste français surtout connu pour son roman *À la recherche du temps perdu*, publié en sept volumes entre 1913 et 1927. Il est considéré par les critiques et les écrivains comme l'un des auteurs les plus influents du XXe siècle. ---------- Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel *À la recherche du temps perdu* (translated in English as *Remembrance of Things Past* or In *Search of Lost Time),* which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. ([Source][1]) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
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