{"product_id":"swanns-way-isbn-9781681376295","title":"Swann's Way","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSwann’s Way\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of the seven volumes that con­stitute Marcel Proust’s lifework, \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e,  introduces the larger themes of the whole work while standing on its  own as a brilliant evocation of childhood, hopeless love, and the French  Belle Époque.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We first encounter Proust’s narrator in middle age,  consumed with regret for his misspent life. Suddenly, he is back in the  past, seized by memories of childhood: his clinging attachment to his  mother, his dread of his father, summers in the country and the two  walks his family was in the habit of taking—one by an aristocratic  estate, the other by the house of a certain Charles Swann, to whom a  mystery was attached. A child’s world, and the world of adults the child  struggles to imagine, spread out before us, while Proust’s pages teem  with incident and puzzle­ment, pathos and humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The novel then  takes a further step backwards to tell the story of Swann’s infatuation  with the courtesan Odette. Swann, man­-about­-town and familiar of  royalty, is reduced to walking after midnight, forlorn as a child  awaiting a good­night kiss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e James Grieve began his career  translating Proust in the early 1970s, driven by his dismay at how many  readers recoiled from what they imagined to be the difficulty of  Proust’s work, and his translation of \u003ci\u003eSwann’s Way\u003c\/i\u003e brings out  the book’s fluency and speed as no other version does. It offers an  unequaled introduction to an incompa­rably absorbing work of art.\"Here is a \u003ci\u003eSwann’s Way\u003c\/i\u003e that functions as a [\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e] sampler plate: the mildly curious will find their appetites sated and the intrepid literary explorers will find theirs whetted.\" —Eric Vanderwall, \u003ci\u003eOn the Seawall\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From its initial ‘Time was . . .’ to ‘doing the cattleyas’ and beyond, James Grieve’s translation of \u003ci\u003eSwann’s Way\u003c\/i\u003e is ingenious, scrupulous, and limber. Grieve’s sensitivity to nuance and the skill of his syntactic joinery give this ver­sion of the entrance to Proust’s masterwork distinctive and enduring appeal.” —Chris Andrews\u003cb\u003eMarcel Proust \u003c\/b\u003e(1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist. Born in Auteuil, Paris, Proust began his literary career writing criticism and short stories for \u003ci\u003eLe Banquet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Revue Blanche\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLe Figaro\u003c\/i\u003e. At 38 years old, Proust began gathering material for what would become his monumental epic, \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost time\u003c\/i\u003e, which he would work on for the rest of his life. Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, the second volume won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. The monumental epic tracks economic and cultural change taking place in France at the end of the Third Republic; its play with the themes of memory and time earned him a reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Grieve\u003c\/b\u003e (1934–2020) was an Australian translator and author.  Best known for his translations of Proust, Grieve also translated two children's books, wrote book reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and taught French language and literature at the Australian National University in Canberra.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305546141925,"sku":"NP9781681376295","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681376295.jpg?v=1767737647","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/swanns-way-isbn-9781681376295","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}