David's review
The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Marcel Proust
David's review
The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust
David's review
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Despite my initial reluctance to pick up where I left off by reading a new translation, I was very relieved to find out that the new version is actually very good. I'm planning to read the next volume in the new translation as well, but I'll finish off the remaining two with the good old Moncrieff version.
In addition to having some wonderfully amusing scenes and commentary about the society and salons of the narrator's Paris, this volume also contained a couple of my favorite sections I've encountered, including the narrator's attempts to communicate with his grandmother using the telephone, and the amazingly rendered sequence leading up to his grandmother's death.
In addition to having some wonderfully amusing scenes and commentary about the society and salons of the narrator's Paris, this volume also contained a couple of my favorite sections I've encountered, including the narrator's attempts to communicate with his grandmother using the telephone, and the amazingly rendered sequence leading up to his grandmother's death.
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by deleted member
03/05/2008 02:56PM
I'm just (re)reading the section in the barracks and am amused and amazed by the way he conveys the young St.-Loup going on and on about military strategy. It seems so realistic: didactic and clear, enthusiastic but reasoned, youthful.
I haven't looked at the new translations yet. The British one with one translator per volume? What do you like about it?
Thanks for your review,
Rebekah
I haven't looked at the new translations yet. The British one with one translator per volume? What do you like about it?
Thanks for your review,
Rebekah
