In Search of Lost Time: Volume 5

Nov 21, 2024 2:22 AM

Author:Marcel Proust,Carol Clark,Peter Collier,Carol Clark,Peter Collier,Carol Clark,Christopher Prendergast

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.

Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

Reviews

Intimate...unflinching. Very tough to put down.

—— Pam Houston, "O" The Oprah Magazine

It's funny and sad and redemptive. Read it now. Thank me later.

—— Jennifer Weiner

How do we forgive the unforgivable? First-time novelist Ward explores this question with a delicate blend of compassion, humour and realism...Her spare but psychologically rich portraits are utterly convincing.

—— Publishers Weekly

This is the one novel that everyone insisted I took with me. Set in a Sudanese village by the Nile, it is a brilliant exploration of African encounters with the West, and the corrupting power of colonialism. I never got this book out to read without someone coming up to tell me how brilliant it was

—— Mary Beard

An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions...Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

—— Observer

The prose, translated from Arabic, has a grave beauty. It's the story of a man who returns to his native Sudan after being educated in England, then encounters the first Sudanese to get an English education. The near-formal elegance in the writing contrasts with the sly anti-colonial world view of the book, and this makes it even more interesting

—— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Denys Johnson-Davies...the leading Arabic-English translator of our time

—— Edward Said

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