This Volume opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons.
Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world..
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time , The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons.
The third Volume in Penguin Classics\' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time-- the first completely new translation of Proust\'s masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
The third Volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century Mark Treharne\'s acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.
Both a salute to and satire of a time, place, and culture, this new translation will introduce a new generation to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.
This Volume opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons
