REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST VOLUME 1

"That special category of translations which are themselves literary masterpieces.. his book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced' A. N. WILSON Proust's transformative novel follows one man's search for meaning in his life, from childhood through love affairs, jealousy, desire and loss to the discovery of his vocation, and salvation, in art. Scott Moncrieff's masterly early twentieth-century translation of Remembrance of Things Past captures both Prous's grandeur and lyricism, and is now regarded as an immortal classic in its own right. This volume contains Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove, reflecting on the narrator's impressions of his idyllic childhood, and his first meeting with the mysterious Albertine.