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The Captive and the Fugitive
by Marcel Proust
ISBN: 0679424776
ISBN-13: 9780679424772
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In THE CAPTIVE, Marcel, in Balbec for the summer, is overwhelmed by a realization of the import of his grandmother's death. His jealous love for Albertine continues, along with suspicions that she is a lesbian. He becomes intimately involved with the Verdurins, the snobbish bourgeois family at whose home he meets artists and musicians, as well as the ever-present Baron de Charlus. In THE FUGITIVE, despite his family's disapproval, Marcel and Albertine live together in Paris. He becomes obsessed with her life, and spies on her shamelessly, finally testing her love by suggesting they separate. She stuns him by leaving and is subsequently killed in a fall from a horse. His doomed obsession with her continues until he again encounters Gilberte Swann and travels to Venice with his mother; his memory begins to work, bringing back people and events from his childhood. He also publishes an article in Le Figaro, and begins to see the real possibility of a writing career.
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"In spite of his independent manner, Proust has managed to inspire his novel with the prudent technical virtues of suspense and unity. These signs of formal interest are what make 'Remembrance of Things Past' a novel, rather than mere rambling reminiscence....It is held together by a method analogous to that which unifies actual human experience, repetition of events, physical and mental. " -- Rose Lee
-- New York Times Book Review
"Marcel Proust is perhaps the greatest psychological novelist of his generation....His lucidities are hidden. He does nothing at all to help you. If you would read him the effort must be yours. He does not descend even one step to meet you. He sits in a certain splendid isolation and demands that you come to him if you will."
-- Boston Transcript
"After all is said one is forced to utter the same comment: Proust is the greatest novelist of our age." -- Angel Flores
-- Contemporary Authors
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Modern Library
Published date: 1993
Size: 5 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Publisher's Notes
In The Captive, Proust's narrator is living with Albertine in his mother's Paris apartment. He is chronically concerned about who she may or may not love. In The Fugitive, Albertine is irretrievably lost to him, and he retreats to Venice, where he receives a telegram from Gilberte, Swann's red-haired daughter. Rich with irony, the story inspires meditations on desire, homosexuality, music, and the art of introspection. 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.
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The Captive and the Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, Volume V)
Proust, Marcel; Moncrieff, C.K. Scott & Kilmartin, Terence (translators)
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Modern Library, 1993. Usual library markings; corner clipped from flyleaf. 957 pages. Interior is clean and unmarked. . Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Plain Tales Books (United States)
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IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, VOLUME 5: THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE (MODERN LIBRARY)
Proust, Marcel
Modern Library,, 1993. Hardcover. Fine. 957 page hardcover with dustjacket, appears unread, pages clean & tight, spine ever so slightly slanted, dustjacket ever so slightly rubbed. ( more information) Offered by OldCornerBooks.com [formerly Bethel Charkoudian Books] (United States)
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In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 The Captive, The Fugitive
Proust, Marcel
Modern Library. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. Third Printing. Cloth. 1993 Modern Library Edition, third printng cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. ; Modern Library; 2.1 x 7.51 x 5 Inches; The Modern Library’s fifth volume of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i> contains both <i>The Captive</i> (1923) and <i>The Fugitive </i>(1925). . ( more information) Offered by SVIRDEN BOOKS (United States)
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