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THE
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WAY
_Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff_
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(1871-1922)
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “À LA RECHERCHE
DU TEMPS PERDU”
“_I don’t think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an
example of the power of analysis, and I feel safe in saying that there
will never be another._”—_Joseph Conrad._
_The world of fashion in which Marcel Proust spent his youth and early
manhood saw nothing of him during the last thirteen years of his life. A
victim of chronic illness, he barricaded himself in his apartment,
swathed himself like an Egyptian mummy, drew his shutters and curtains
to exclude the light, and there recorded his chronicle of things past.
Son of a distinguished physician and an heiress of a rich Jewish family,
Proust had his first training under the guidance of the Roman Catholic
Church. An association in the 1890’s with some of the aesthetes of that
period resulted in the publication of a review, to which Proust
contributed some juvenile prose and verse. Thereafter the fashionable
Faubourg St. Germain became his sphere, and it was there, among the
illustrious and well-born, that he assimilated those fragments of gossip
and family history which were later transmuted into a world in
itself—the world of_ _À La Recherche du Temps Perdu._
LES PLAISIRS ET LES JOURS (with a preface by Anatole France (1896))
À L’OMBRE DES JEUNES FILLES EN FLEURS (1918) (WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE
(1924))
LE CÔTÉ DE GUERMANTES I (1920) LE CÔTÉ DE GUERMANTES II (1921) (THE
GUERMANTES WAY (1925))
SODOME ET GOMORRHE I (1921) SODOME ET GOMORRHE II (1922) (CITIES OF THE
PLAIN (1928))
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_A l’auteur_