In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1 av Marcel Proust

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<p>One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust''s <i>In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann''s</i> is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.<br><br><i>The Way by Swann''s </i>is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a <i>madeleine</i>. It contains the separate short novel, <i>A Love of Swann''s</i>, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.<br><br>Since the original pre-war translation <i>Remembrance of Things Past </i>by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Pro