Book description
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND
KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of
World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator
returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic
creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life.
This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to
Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.
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.
