Marcel Proust
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| Title | : | In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (À la recherche du temps perdu #2) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | January 25th 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1913) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature |
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine. First time in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s, following Lydia Davis's brilliant translation of Swann's WayParticularize Books In Pursuance Of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (À la recherche du temps perdu #2)
| Original Title: | À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs |
| ISBN: | 0143039075 (ISBN13: 9780143039075) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039075,00.html?In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower_Marcel_Proust |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #2 |
| Characters: | Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Gilberte Swann, Albertine Simonet, Robert de Saint-Loup, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Goncourt (1919), Премія «Сковорода» (2001) |
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the review is missing. below are the comments which followed.David Youre wrong that this is better than Swanns Way and youre wrong in calling Proust an anti-romantic. Try again, jewtard!Brian read more carefully, gothskimmer. i wrote that one could say that proust was anti-romantic. all i mean is that his extreme nuerosis and need to analyze everything (to death!) does, in a sense, reduce every creature to a 'thinking machine'. after hundreds of pages of his wildly in-depth analysis i dontIt may have taken me more than a month to finish reading this work, but it was certainly well worth the effort. This novel got better and better as I worked my way to the end. I loved in particular the second part ('Swann in Love') of the first novel (Swann's Way) of 'Remembrance of Things Past', and it was also the second part of Within A Budding Grove (also published as 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower') that captured my attention more than the first part. Overall I prefer this novel to
There's a lot of stuff in Volume 2 of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work, which he started in Un Amour de Swann. There, he examined one particular kind of relationship. Swann spends a fair amount of time with Odette, who is very nice to him and keeps saying how she wishes she could see him more often. Without realizing it, he comes to rely on her always
Proust stretches or shrinks time outside of its natural unfolding, and this is undoubtedly what makes it exciting.He can thus fly over weeks in a few lines and dwell on a moment to autopsy on several pages. He rewrites the past as if to give it a present consistency, even if all this is only illusion.Proust is a writer for detail, precision almost obsessive at times. A precision that we had forgotten, occupied that we are running without seeing, and that we rediscover suddenly in amazement
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.-John Keats Let us first treat this as a premise, a maxim if you will, this quote from a long dead poet with a penchant for ancient pottery. Then, let us strip whatever meaning that has accrued upon it. Whether it resulted from pure instinct or rote memorization, fling it all away, and leave just the words. Little as they are, they are more than enough.So, beauty is truth, truth beauty. Now, what is beauty? What is truth?We sacrifice to beauty in all its forms, the
After I finished the first volume of Prousts masterpiece, I did what I always do when I finish a book: I wrote a review. And, in truth, I ended up being a bit harsh and hyperbolic in that review; but I soon came to second-guess myself. For, although I cant say I exactly loved Swanns Way (I liked it), that book had, without my being aware of it, completely undermined everything I thought I knew about fiction. Unconsciously, imperceptibly, my whole concept of the novel had changed. So it feels a
I've long debated with myself - and friends - the actual benefits of re-reading versus a fresh read of a new book. Would re-reading really bring me a considerable number of new reflections, ideas and opinions to add to the first impressions I've gathered on my first read? And wouldn't this time spent on this repeated task be better employed by reading a completely different book that would instead and therefore give me completely different reflections on different subjects I perhaps haven't
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