Time Regained/a Guide to Proust

by Marcel Proust; Andreas Mayor

TIME REGAINED, the final volume of Proust's great work, covers the years of World War I and its aftermath. Marcel returns to Paris, sees many of the people he once knew (now grown old and grotesque), and finds that the thrice-married Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He also meets Gilberte's daughter, Mlle. De Saint-Loup, who represents the fusion of the two "ways" of his childhood. Most importantly, after reflecting on time and art, he resolves to write the book that will provide his own response to both--using his own life as his subject matter.

Editions of Time Regained/a Guide to Proust

ISBN

9780679424765

Binding/Format

Hardcover

Publisher

Modern Library

Date

1993

Price

$9.20

Fine

Publisher Notes

The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature - his past life. This volume also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, an index to all six volumes of the novel. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.