Likely to be the edition of choice for students of the novel in English and readers keen for a supportive framework for their endeavors.'-Adam Watt, H-France Review appended in a column on the outside margin of each page, like the voice of a knowledgeable friend who sits at our side as we read. Insightful and accessible, Carter’s edition of Marcel Proust’s masterwork will be the go-to text for generations of readers seeking to understand Proust’s remarkable bygone world. Carter corrects long-standing errors in Scott Moncrieff’s otherwise superlative translation, bringing it closer than ever to the spirit and style of Proust’s original text-and reaching English readers in a way that the Pléiade annotations cannot. Scott Moncrieff’s beloved translation as the basis for this annotated and fully revised edition. Permeated by the “bloom of youth” and its resonances in memories of love and friendship, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower takes readers into the heart of Proust’s comic and poetic genius. The reader again encounters Swann, now married to his former mistress and largely fallen from high society, and meets for the first time several of Proust’s most memorable characters: the handsome, dashing Robert de Saint-Loup, who will become the narrator’s best friend the enigmatic Albertine, leader of the “little band” of adolescent girls the profoundly artistic Elstir, believed to be Proust’s composite of Whistler, Monet, and other leading painters and, making his unforgettable entrance near the end of the volume, the intense, indelible Baron de Charlus. Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann’s Way moves further through childhood and into adolescence, as the author brilliantly examines themes of love and youth, in settings in Paris and by the sea in Normandy. It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame.

Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.

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