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Title	:	The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #3)
Author	:	Marcel Proust
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 619 pages
Published	:	May 31st 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1920)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature

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After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to, and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. First time in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with french flaps and luxurious design Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s

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Original Title:	Le Côté de Guermantes
ISBN:	0143039229 (ISBN13: 9780143039228)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039228,00.html?The_Guermantes_Way_Marcel_Proust
Series:	À la recherche du temps perdu #3
Literary Awards:	Премія «Сковорода» (2001)

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--The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time Volume III)NotesAddendaSynopsis

We are attracted by every form of life which represents to us something unknown and strange, by a last illusion still unshattered. I read this book in a purple haze of the summer dazeno, not the Hendrix variety, rather, a surreal read where words seemed to be scuttling across text, dropping off the pages, dimming when I focussed on them-closed the book, thinking, tomorrow is another day-& found no recollection of the previous day's read, started all over again... Didn't help that there were

And even in my most carnal desires, oriented always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognized as their primary motive an idea, an idea for which I would have laid down my life, at the innermost core of which, as in my day-dreams while I sat reading all afternoon in the garden at Combray, lay the notion of perfection.-Marcel ProustI go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, its nothing: its only the vision of the human animal who,

Back when I was reading Swanns Way, I expressed the wish that Marcel would relax a bit and let his witty side come out to play more. At the time, things were generally pretty intense and serious inside his head. (Yes, in fact, I do know I have a knack for understatement, thank you.) Between the madeleine, his mother obsession and his painstaking, point-by-point dissection of Swanns love-jealousy process, it was a rather relentless windstorm. But, it must have been about three-quarters through,

I found myself lingering on the front steps of the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes (whose lintel towers over usindeed over even the superannuated, yet still, in her own esteem at least, well-connected iconoclast, Mme de Villeparisismore ominously than the steepest sublimities of Mont Blanc) thinking of how that in the Garden of Genealogy there are many paths that one might take (not unlike those in the Gardens of the Ile de Bois de Boulogne, to which I designed to bring Mlle. de Stermaria upon

Finally the scheme of the novel as a whole comes into view, as the narrator uses the characters of book two (the always-gallant St. Loup and the outmoded Madame de Villeparisis) to try to ascend socially to the "pinnacle" of Mme de Guermantes's legendary salon. But along the way, we encounter two beloved characters from book one who have drastically changed, who are shown not to fit into what's required of Marcel's new world view. Three highlights: An incredible tour de force Balzacian 100 pages

Induction into the Guermantes Way"Sometimes, hidden in the heart of its name, the fairy is transfomed to suit the life of our imagination, by which she lives; thus it was that the atmosphere in which Mme de Guermantes existed in me, after having been for years no more than the reflexion of a magic lantern and of a stained glass window, began to lose its colours when quite other dreams impregnated it with the bubbling coolness of swift-flowering streams ." (MKE 3)Expectation. This third volume of