โ Scribed by Proust, Marcel
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A definitive new translation of the second volume of In Search of Lost Time captures the intricacies and challenges of male and female adolescence and awakening love, based on the narrator's reminiscences about Paris and the Normandy coast.
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*'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 In the overture to *Swann's* Way, the themes of the who
'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women ... shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality ... is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lyth
Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work. From the Trade Paperback edition.
'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women ... shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality ... is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lyth
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