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Book SynopsisGenerally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century – and possibly any other – Proust’s masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation. On the surface a traditional
Bildungsroman describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others – Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time.
Trade ReviewA world of vivid places and intensely human characters ...the greatest and most rewarding novel of the 20th Century The novel unfolds a lifetime of experiences, which enlarges our understanding of love and nature, memory and snobbery. -- Roger Shattuck
