James C:
This collection of six books kept me going during lockdown. I had only read book one, Swann’s Way, and that was about forty years ago. This time I decided to go for it and read the whole thing. If you are at all tempted to try it I would certainly recommend this version. The translation is lively - I speak French moderately well - and the things that put some people off such as his ‘serpentine’ sentences I did not find a problem: his syntax, his grammar, thus his meaning, is always clear. I do have a problem with some aspects of the story: the accidental death of the heroine is deeply frustrating. I do not like it when a person as important as Albertine gets ‘killed off’ when she had so much more to give. I threw the book down in annoyance at the time, but picked it up again, and slowly, but surely, Proust regained my trust and my interest by the ‘what happened after’.
Another aspect of it that is pretty intolerable is his attitude to poor people, particularly young women. But even that, disgusting to many readers as it must surely be, shows how Proust’s honesty is jaw-dropping, and surely give a true picture of how society during that epoch...
United Kingdom on Oct 27, 2023
Client d'Amazondarryl evans:
Beautiful this collection of « In search of lost time. » I love it!
France on Mar 01, 2023
Sayantan M.Sayantan M.:
Beautiful set of books it is. For people who don't know, it is the longest piece of literature ever written. Proust's in search of lost time is truly a gift to the humankind. It yields a higher and intellectual understanding of life. If you are a literature enthusiast go for it, you'll enjoy it in so many levels.
India on Nov 25, 2019
B. D. PinedaB. D. Pineda:
Va a ser muy difícil que encuentren está obra de Proust completa y a este precio.
Además, esta edición incluye al final de cada libro una breve sinopsis y una guía de personajes y lugares.
Mexico on Nov 17, 2018
David Holmes:
Three days ago I finished reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Today I will begin my second reading. That's the best recommendation I can give. In a lifetime of reading I have never read a book twice in a row outside of an academic requirement. This rereading is not motivated by a sense of "that was good, hit restart and do it again." There is a "secret" in Proust's book that, when revealed, invites rereading. Its not a secret, I just don't want to try to explain here when it is in the books I reference below. According to one source I read, it is not uncommon for those who finish Proust's book to want to immediately reread.
This review is about how I completed my first reading, not a summary of the book. More than most books, first time readers of In Search of Lost Time need a plan to have a reasonable prospect for success. In this review I will share the questions I asked and decisions I made. The fact that I finished the book should indicate the decisions I made were right for me and my circumstance. I hope what I write will allow others to weigh my decisions and apply them to their own circumstance.
In order to judge how your circumstances...
United States on Jul 16, 2014
Amazon Customer:
As we get older there are certain things, events, intervals in our lives that stand out as significant and worth remembering. We remember the first moment we realized we were in love, a wedding, the birth of each child, the shattering loss of a loved one, moments of great success and great failure, and great traumas and disappointments, even disasters that we managed to live through, the times when we Crossed the Great Water (whether an ocean, a great lake, the Mississippi River or a decision from which there was no turning back.) These are the mile markers... Not only does Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" deal with events like these, but also, for me, reading it was that kind of thing itself, an event of significance in my life, although because of its length it was more like a series of milestones than a single one. It is a very long book, one of the longer ones I've read, along with Churchill's histories and Edward Gibbon's) and I say it was worth the time I spent reading it, in the same way I say my life has been long (longer than many, anyway) and worth the time I spent living it. What else, after all, did I have to do with my life but live it? -...
United States on Jun 25, 2011
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0812969641 | 978-0312370848 | |
| Paperback | 4211 pages | 295 pages | |
| Item Weight | 7.91 pounds | 9.8 ounces | |
| ISBN-10 | 0812969642 | 0312370849 | |
| Publisher | Modern Library; Slp edition | St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition | |
| Dimensions | 8.6 x 5.44 x 8.43 inches | 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches | |
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