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In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2

byMarcel Proust, C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), D. J. Enright (Translator)

Within a Budding Grove

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THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine, who will become the great love of his life.

Scott Moncrieff's translation was rather like swimming through syrup...Kilmartin and Enright have produced a version that wonderfully proves the greatness of this novel, this novelist. The prose that describes Swann's sexual obsession, for instance, is so good you have to stop after many a paragraph, re-read, think over it

Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

About Marcel Proust

Proust was born in Auteuil, France in 1871. He began writing his masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, in 1909, and worked on it until his death in 1922, following several years of poor health during which he had been confined to his bedroom.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099362319
  • Length: 656 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 35mm x 131mm
  • Weight: 469g
  • Price: £10.99
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