In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In the Shadow of Young Girls in FlowerThe second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume in the superb edition of In Search of Lost Time the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s it brings us a more comic and lucid prose

The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume in the superb edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s--it brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. 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 lie 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 Monsieur 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/25/2005
ISBN: 9780143039075
Pages: 558
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.72w x 1.48d

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/2005 pg. 126
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 51
New York Review of Books 12/15/2005 pg. 76
Foreword 03/01/2005 pg. 1