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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time)
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann's Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editionsthe first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920sbring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Review:"A triumph . . . will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world." (Malcolm Bowie, Sunday Telegraph (London)) About the AuthorMarcel Proust (1871 &1922) is considered the greatest French writer of the twentieth century. James Grieve, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, has published a translation of Proust's Swann's Way and two novels for young adults. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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