In Search of Lost Time (v. 1)

The whole is a treasure hunt where the treasure is time and the hiding-place is the past ...The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy and artistic euphoria - this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' - Vladimir Nabokov. The Way by Swann's is one of the greatest novels of childhood in any language - the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, all brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also contains the separate short novel A Love of Swann's, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The book establishes Proust as one of the defining voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition. The Penguin Proust is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s. Under Christopher Prendergast's general editorship, these superb editions bring us a more rich, comic, and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. (From the book-cover blurb)

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