In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Marcel Proust (1871x{0026} x02013;1922) es uno de los grandes escritores del siglo XX, autor de la monumental A la busca del tiempo perdido . Sus ensayos, artículos y traducciones revelan una temprana vocación crítica y una sensibilidad estética marcada por la influencia de John Ruskin. En ellos ya aparece el germen de su reflexión sobre la memoria, el arte y la experiencia del tiempo, que encontraría su expresión plena en la obra mayor que lo consagró.