In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 1997, Hardcover, Revised: items on eBay.com

Description: Proust's seven-volume novel is a chronicle of turn-of-the-century Parisian life, with its social climbers, artists, snobs, decadents, and neurotics, as seen through the consciousness of Marcel--the narrator, protagonist, and searcher for...

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Synopsis
Proust's seven-volume novel is a chronicle of turn-of-the-century Parisian life, with its social climbers, artists, snobs, decadents, and neurotics, as seen through the consciousness of Marcel--the narrator, protagonist, and searcher for the meaning of his experience. This vast and magnificent novel is, among other things, a meditation on the workings of memory, the nature of love, and the meaning of time.

TIME REGAINED, the final volume of Proust's great work, covers the years of World War I and its aftermath. Marcel returns to Paris, sees many of the people he once knew (now grown old and grotesque), and finds that the thrice-married Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He also meets Gilberte's daughter, Mlle. De Saint-Loup, who represents the fusion of the two "ways" of his childhood. Most importantly, after reflecting on time and art, he resolves to write the book that will provide his own response to both--using his own life as his subject matter.

Details
Publication Date:	1997-07-01
Edition Description:	Revised

Size
Height:	7.8 in
Width:	5.5 in
Thickness:	11.8 in
Weight:	144.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"In spite of his independent manner, Proust has managed to inspire his novel with the prudent technical virtues of suspense and unity. These signs of formal interest are what make 'Remembrance of Things Past' a novel, rather than mere rambling reminiscence....It is held together by a method analogous to that which unifies actual human experience, repetition of events, physical and mental. "
New York Times Book Review - Rose Lee (07/05/1925)

"After all is said one is forced to utter the same comment: Proust is the greatest novelist of our age."
Contemporary Authors - Angel Flores (03/16/1930)

"Marcel Proust is perhaps the greatest psychological novelist of his generation....His lucidities are hidden. He does nothing at all to help you. If you would read him the effort must be yours. He does not descend even one step to meet you. He sits in a certain splendid isolation and demands that you come to him if you will."
Clark

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