WORDSWORTH CLASSICS : REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST PB C FORMAT – MARCEL PROUST-C.K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF-INGRID WASSENAAR-TOM GRIFFITH

Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. With an Introduction by Ingrid Wassenaar. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century s Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age. Scott Moncrieff s delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff s translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust s style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.