In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
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Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. When publiched, 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.' Includes illustrations.
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Note: I didn't read this translation, I read “Within a Budding Grove.” Which, accuracy aside (I don't speak French so I don't know), is a much better title. Much less awkward and (perhaps) overly literal...
‰ЫПPleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark-room, the door of which is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.‰Ыќ
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‰ЫПThough I met each new day with the thought that I was now on the threshold of life, which still lay before me all unlived and was about to start the very next day, not only had my life in fact begun, but the years to come would not be very different from the years already elapsed.‰Ыќ
Series
7 primary books8 released booksÀ la recherche du temps perdu is a 8-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1913 with contributions by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis, and 3 others.
Series
8 primary booksÀ la recherche du temps perdu - Adaptation graphique is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1919 with contributions by Marcel Proust, Arthur Goldhammer, and 2 others.
