Marcel Proust: 364 books

'Il tempo ritrovato’ è il settimo e ultimo volume della ‘Recherche’. Scoppia la prima guerra mondiale e anche in mezzo ai bombardamenti l'ascesa degli arrivisti non ha limiti. Ritornato a Parigi, dopo un soggiorno in una casa di cura, Marcel ritrova gli amici del passato quasi irriconoscibili...

El primer volumen que abre este gran ciclo novelístico, ya contiene la esencia y los grandes temas que se irán desarrollando con insólita maestría a lo largo de la rica y laberíntica narrativa proustiana: desde su lúcido examen del paso del tiempo y de los resortes de la memoria que llevan al...

"The Guermantes way" is the path that runs past the chateau belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. It also represents the path into "the social kaleidoscope" traveled by Proust's narrator, which culminates in his introduction to the Paris salon of the Guermantes. The...

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have...

Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since...

"Sevdiğimiz zaman, aşk o kadar büyüktür ki bir bütün olarak içimize sığmaz; sevdiğimiz insana doğru yayılır, onda kendisini durduran, başlangıç noktasına geri dönmeye zorlayan bir yüzey bulur; işte karşımızdakinin hisleri dediğimiz şey, kendi sevgimizin çarpıp geri...

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive,...

'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the...

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado....

Un Proust nuevo, inteligible y fiel al natural, presentado en una versión precisa y rigurosa, orientada a la preservación de la disposición natural del texto original y a la conservación de los rasgos de distinción de la obra. Esperamos que sus virtudes más perdurables, y al mismo tiempo más...

Cette édition de référence rassemble dans un même volume, les deux romans les plus significatifs du génie proustien « À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs » suivi de « Du côté de chez Swann ». « Du côté de chez Swann » Charles Swann - fils d'un riche agent de change...

« Il faut bien prendre garde que le sophiste, en nous vantant trop sa marchandise, ne nous trompe comme les gens qui nous vendent tout ce qui est nécessaire pour la nourriture du corps ; car ces derniers, sans savoir si les denrées qu'ils débitent sont bonnes ou mauvaises pour la santé, les vantent...

Les textes proposés dans ce Carnet sont issus pour la plupart d’articles publiés dans Le Figaro. Bourgeois, aristocrates, femmes du monde y sont tour à tour décrits en une galerie de portraits et une suite d’anecdotes dont Proust rend compte avec beaucoup de drôlerie, faisant coexister simultanément...

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel, and C....