In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove

Marcel Proust

Language: English

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: Jan 1, 1957

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In Search of Lost Time
Volume I
Swann's Way
Volume II
Within a Budding Grove
Volume III
The Guermantes Way
Volume IV
Sodom and Gomorrah
Volume V
The Captive
The Fugitive
Volume VI
Time Regained -- Review

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Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec become the primary agents of recollection for him.

The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. 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 French editions.