Book description
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND
KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his
initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking
back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he
satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it.
His observations, and his experiences with his lover Albertine, also
educate him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path
towards adulthood.
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became
a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris
salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic
asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with
humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by
day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the
completion of
A la recherche du temps perdu
. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his
great life's work.
