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Book SynopsisKnown above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is a collection of these, put together with an introduction by Jean Findlay, author Chasing Lost Time – the life of CK Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator (Chatto and Windus 2014, Vintage 2015, Farrar Straus and Giroux 2015)
Trade ReviewTimes Literary Supplement June 18th 2015;It is the season of C. K. Scott Moncrieff. It has been a long season beginning last summer with the publication of Chasing Lost Time a biography of Scott Moncrieff by Jean Findlay, his great-great-niece. CKSM was responsible for a great many translations – in 1926 alone, he published four: three novels by Stendhal and one by Pirandello (Shoot!) – but it is for his rendering of Proust into English that he is best known. Supporters like to invoke Conrad’s remark to the translator, that he was `more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust’s creation.’ …In his TLS review of Ms Findlay’s biography (October 31, 2014), A.N. Wilson complimented CKSM in similar style to Conrad, suggesting that he is `more Proustian than Proust himself.’
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Short Stories 5 Evensonge and Morwesong 7 Mortmain 11 Cousin Fanny and Cousin Annie 16 The Victorians 39 Ant 56 Two Tales 66 The Mouse in the Dovecot 78 War Serials 89 Early Poems 125 War Poems 151 Love and Dedicatory Poems 171 Satirical Verse 189
