<![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]>

false 28385 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 28385 75 28942 book 1919 A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs total:814|5:500|4:205|3:87|2:17|1:5| 814 3620 1464 96 233619 4.30 7570 1015 67021563 193310 9484 0375752196 9780375752193 15 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288m/9484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288s/9484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9484.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.41 140 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 4 24 false Tue Aug 11 19:34:53 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:42:06 -0700 2009 the review is missing.
below are the comments which followed.

David – You’re wrong that this is better than Swann’s Way and you’re wrong in calling Proust an ‘anti-romantic’. Try again, jewtard!

Brian – read more carefully, gothskimmer. i wrote t...more...]]> 38375494 1713956 865083 2070380513 9782070380510 2 <![CDATA[A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179007183m/865083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179007183s/865083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/865083.A_L_Ombre_Des_Jeunes_Filles_En_Fleurs 4.83 18 roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une œuvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.

Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, œuvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

]]> 1919 5 10 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sat Nov 22 08:11:31 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 12 05:33:27 -0700 2009 A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work, which he started in Un Amour de Swann. There, he examined one particular kind of re...more...]]> 15597595 419287 28393 0670032778 9780670032778 8 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946476m/28393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946476s/28393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28393.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II 4.42 26 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 editions—the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s—bring 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.

]]> 1919 3 7 false Sun May 03 17:19:44 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 16 18:42:19 -0800 2008 Sun May 03 17:19:44 -0700 2009 A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs translates to Within a Budding Grove.

Good thing I have the ever-trustworthy (....???) C. K. Scott Moncrieff to translate this all for me!

...more...]]> 66387318 45618 9484 0375752196 9780375752193 15 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288m/9484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288s/9484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9484.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.45 814 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 4 14 false Wed Aug 05 21:52:34 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:55:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 10624505 41949 9484 0375752196 9780375752193 15 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288m/9484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288s/9484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9484.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.45 814 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 0 1 false Tue Dec 18 08:39:26 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:39:34 -0800 2007 The most exquisite hand-wringing one is bound to encounter.

A good, slow, dense read for the winter. This man is capable of clacking open oblique moments like nuts and feeding you the meat. Mysterious meat you did not really recognize before it was proffered. (Okay, now forget the ...more...]]> 23148775 197320 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.44 477 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 4 1 false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 13:26:01 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 14:07:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 38384226 1098138 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 5 0 false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 10:24:04 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 10:38:00 -0800 2008 1
I've really had to come face to face with just how cynical he is....more...]]> 77805537 1854336 863620 0099362317 9780099362319 2 <![CDATA[Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)(Vintage Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178999352m/863620.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178999352s/863620.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863620.Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.43 14 1919 4 1 false Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 19:40:31 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 19:40:31 -0800 2009
I have been fortunate in that my reading of "Within a Budding Grove" has coincided with long periods of travel involving plane and train j...more...]]> 48801987 141875 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 5 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 09:05:35 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:56:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57354524 167336 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 3 0 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 06:55:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 18:15:26 -0700 2009
His obsessions wi...more...]]> 61041772 2457266 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 1 0 false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 05:07:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:01:22 -0700 2009 less than half
I always imagined what it would be like when I am older and therefore reasonably excused, from falling asleep and snoring loudly during act 1 of a pathetically unpromising tract of theatre, blissfully unaware of my com...more...]]> 950722 70386 537809 067960006X 9780679600060 8 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882m/537809.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882s/537809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537809.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.57 42 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Apr 30 10:06:13 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 30 10:07:11 -0700 2007 47425934 446110 537809 067960006X 9780679600060 8 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882m/537809.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882s/537809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537809.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.45 814 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 4 1 false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 17:03:58 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 09:02:39 -0700 2009
The story took lots of perseverance to get through but just when I was about to give up and cast the book aside, I'd read somet...more...]]> 66033978 238702 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:22:33 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:09:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 37886294 958839 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 4 0 false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 16 14:33:28 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 12 15:05:03 -0700 2009 Swann's Way, the false and fragmentary nature of our knowledge of the characters of others: the image of Swann as pretentious name-dropper, held by M's father after S's marriage to Odette, is contrasted with the erudite, modest, discreet Swan...more...]]> 35016688 3784 3779718 3 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time: Volume II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246746535m/3779718.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246746535s/3779718.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3779718.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.56 9 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator's life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 10 18:05:11 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 14 13:33:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 33403214 42508 537809 067960006X 9780679600060 8 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882m/537809.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175627882s/537809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537809.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.45 814 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 4 1 false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 21:12:51 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 21:23:02 -0700 2008 Within a Budding Grove, that didn't quite live up to the beauty of Swanns Way. While the first book followed quite closely the adventures of M. Swann and his love affair with Odette, this book stays almost entire...more...]]> 8024937 565673 863597 0141180323 9780141180328 2 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178999259m/863597.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178999259s/863597.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863597.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.71 17 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 editions—the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s—bring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

]]> 1919 0 0 false Sun Oct 21 10:39:38 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 10:39:38 -0700 2007 http://nhw.livejournal.com/859879.html[return][return]I have to say that I found vol 2 a bit more slow-moving, alternating passages of eye-glazing introspection with some really profound and expressive descriptions of what love is like, and how we react to art and to artists (be they actors, writers...more...]]> 5202698 314336 28385 0143039075 9780143039075 50 <![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441m/28385.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946441s/28385.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28385.In_the_Shadow_of_Young_Girls_in_Flower 4.45 814 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.]]> 1919 5 0 false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 27 20:40:20 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 13 21:45:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 243706 24853 9484 0375752196 9780375752193 15 <![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288m/9484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166004288s/9484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9484.In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Volume_II_Within_a_Budding_Grove 4.45 814 Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”

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).]]> 1919 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Mar 12 14:24:06 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 12 20:22:13 -0700 2007
This particular volume is a keeper--you get to meet the Monet character, and Albertine is very fetching, and then they are all at the bea...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28385