REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST / À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU: THE GUERMANTES WAY (ANNOTATED & ILLUSTRATED) / LE CÔTÉ DE GUERMANTES

Volume 3

Third Volume in the Series: Proust Complete Bilingual - English / French- Vol. 1 to 7. Remembrance of Things Past / À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.

Each English Volume is annotated and illustrated by P. Segal: PROUST SAID THAT. With different numbers and topics, followed by the original French version.

In this volume: Issue N° 3 from “Proustsaidthat Americana Collection”.

Topics: Untortured Love, Cacophony Society, Paris and Venice, The Little Phrase, Raymond Chandler, fried sole.

Remembrance of Things Past / À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Previously also translated as In Search of Lost Time is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the Madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume.

The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. In the centenary year of the novel's first volume, Edmund White pronounced À la Recherche du Temps Perdu "the most respected novel of the twentieth century."

“Within a Budding Grove” was awarded the “Prix Goncourt” in 1919.

About the Series

Series:

Proust Complete Bilingual - English / French- Vol. 1 to 7.

Translated from French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff:

-Volume I: Swann's Way [1922] / Du Côté de chez Swann (1913), sometimes translated as The Way by Swann's.

-Volume II: Within a Budding Grove [1924] / À L'ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs (1919), also translated as In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. Goncourt Prize in 1919.

-Volume III: The Guermantes Way [1925] / Le Côté de Guermantes (1920/1921)

-Volume IV: Cities of the Plain [1927] / Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921/1922) sometimes translated as Sodom and Gomorrah.

-Volume V: The Captive [1929] / La Prisonnière (1923), also translated as The Prisoner.

Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone [1930] / Albertine Disparue (1925) La Fugitive) sometimes translated as The Fugitive [last line of Walter de la Mare's poem "The Ghost"] or Albertine Gone.

Translated by Stephen Hudson:

Volume VII: Time Regained [1931] / Le Temps Retrouvé (1927), also translated as Finding Time Again and The Past Recaptured.

Topics in the “Proustsaidthat Americana Collection”:

Issue N°1: Proust Support Group, nocturnal liestyle, drugs, Pink Floyd, Stephen Hawking, Dreyfus Affair, madeleines

Issue N°2: Marcel Purroust, neurosis, Fortuny, Bonny DoonV ineyard, French postcards, nesselrode pudding

Issue N°3: Untortured Love, Cacophony Society, Paris and Venice, The Little Phrase, Raymond Chandler, fried sole.

Issue N° 4: Proust's Life and Mine, Rejection, Proust Questionnaire, Florence, Coffee, S. Richter, bouillabaisse.

Issue N°5: Holiday Madness, The Café Lifestyle, The 1995 Proust Wake, Paris, Our Lady of the Typists, Proust Sightings, Chocolate Madeleines and much more

Front Cover:

Hélène Standish, born Hélène de Pérusse des Cars.
Marcel Proust is inspired by several models for the character Oriane de Guermantes in his novel, In Search of Lost Time.

Translated from French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff

Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, MC (The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.

By the autumn of 1921 Scott Moncrieff had resigned his employment and determined to live from then on by translation alone. He had already successfully published his Song of Roland and Beowulf, and now undertook to translate Proust's huge masterpiece in its entirety. He persuaded Chatto & Windus Publishers to issue the complete Remembrance of Things Past (as he now christened the novel in English).