Since the original, prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a newgeneration. Each book is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.
【作者简介】
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is now generally viewed as thegreatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelistof the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusivesemi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris giving himselfentirely to writing IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
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