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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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By Craig (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3: The Guermantes Way (Hardcover)
I found this a more than worthy volume, but less so than the previous two. The grace and charm of those is largely pushed aside in this one by a pettier, bitchier tone. "Marcel" may be pointing out the foibles of aristocrats, but I daresay it's from a defense mechanism that he isn't one himself. This volume brought to mind H.G. Wells' line, "Moral outrage is jealousy with a halo." THE GUERMANTES WAY is perhaps more than the previous volumes like Thackeray's VANITY FAIR whose subtitle is "A Novel Without a Hero," and where most everyone is noble in title and none in character and rushing to their copies of BURKE'S PEERAGE to see where stands who they've just met in the London pecking order. THE GUERMANTES WAY is more a cynical slice-of-high-society book (and a good one) than one of lyricism like the previous two. Perhaps Proust is to be commended for capturing both lyricism and social commentary so effectively in one work.
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By Craig (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3: The Guermantes Way (Hardcover)
I found this a more than worthy volume, but less so than the previous two. The grace and charm of those is largely pushed aside in this one by a pettier, bitchier tone. "Marcel" may be pointing out the foibles of aristocrats, but I daresay it's from a defense mechanism that he isn't one himself. This volume brought to mind H.G. Wells' line, "Moral outrage is jealousy with a halo." THE GUERMANTES WAY is perhaps more than the previous volumes like Thackeray's VANITY FAIR whose subtitle is "A Novel Without a Hero," and where most everyone is noble in title and none in character and rushing to their copies of BURKE'S PEERAGE to see where stands who they've just met in the London pecking order. THE GUERMANTES WAY is more a cynical slice-of-high-society book (and a good one) than one of lyricism like the previous two. Perhaps Proust is to be commended for capturing both lyricism and social commentary so effectively in one work.
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By James Paris "Tarnmoor" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3: The Guermantes Way (Hardcover)
In the previous two volumes of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, we have seen the young Marcel fantasize about love (in the persons of Gilberte and Albertine) and high society (in the person of the Duchesse de Guermantes). The bulk of THE GUERMANTES WAY's 819 pages is concerned with two parties involving the glitterati of fin-de-siecle Paris. At the party of the literary Mme de Villeparisis, Marcel gains his first admittance to the world of the nobility and gets invited to an evening of his prized Dutchess, whom he had gazed on from afar when she attended church services in Combray, amid the tombs of her ancestors. Sometimes, however, when you get your heart's desire, there is that nagging question: "Is this all there is?" At one point in the latter party, Swann says to Marcel that "one can't have a thousand years of feudalism in one's blood with impunity." The novel ends with the Guermantes about to leave for yet a more empyrean social gathering, to which Marcel is not even sure he is invited. (As we see in the next volume, he is invited and does attend.) At the very end, the Duke puts off seeing a dying friend and begins carping about his wife's choice of shoes. We see the beginnings of Marcel's disenchantment with the social scene. Since this volume covers such a short span of time, we do not yet see the effect of his grandmother's death on the young narrator. We leave him, stunned and confused, at the threshhold of a personal triumph that has already lost much of its luster for him. As I re-read Proust's great series, I am struck by how much I missed the first time I read it years ago. Many reviewers are struck by the length of the scenes describing the parties, but now I find that there is so much going on, and so many undercurrents, that the interior action passes quickly. Most of the action takes place in Marcel's mind as he encounters these gods of society and their hangers-on as they duel for position in their circles. "Thus I beheld the pair of them," muses Marcel, "divorced from that name Guermantes in which long ago I had imagined them leading an unimaginable life, now just like other men and other women...."
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