In Search of Lost Time
内容简介
In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
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作者简介
Born in 1871 in the Parisian suburb of Auteil, Marcel Proust led an active social life in his youth, penetrating the highest circles of wealth and aristocracy. He suffered from severe asthma, which worsened as he grew older, and his illness prompted him to withdraw from society and devote himself to writing. Swann’s Way was published in 1913, and only three more volumes of the six-volume novel were published in his lifetime. The second, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize and brought Proust instant fame in 1919. Proust died in 1922; the subsequent volumes were published posthumously.
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读书文摘
其实这个世界是不真实的，至少是不可认识的，因为我们看到的世界永远受到我们自身的情欲的歪曲。世界不是一个，而是成千上万；“每天清晨有多少双眼睛睁开，有多少人的意识苏醒过来”，便有多少个世界。因此，要紧的不是生活在这些幻觉之中并且为这些幻觉而生活，而是在我们的记忆中寻找失去的乐园，那唯一真实的乐园。
即使从我们日常生活中最微不足道的小事来看，我们谁都不能构成人人眼中都一样的物质整体，总是仁者见仁，智者见智；我们的社会人格，其实是别人的思想创造出来的。
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