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• The Life and Work of Marcel Proust (Naxos Audio)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• The Captive: Part I (Remembrance of Things Past (Naxos Audiobooks))

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• The Guermantes Way: Pt. 1 (Modern Classics)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• The Guermantes Way: Pt. 2 (Modern Classics)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Time Regained (Naxos Audio)

  Marcel Proust

  
  Reissued as a tie-in to the film by Raoul Ruiz, this final volume of Proust's masterpiece In Search of Lost Time presents obvious problems for those coming to it without the benefit of having read the previous sections: even with the extensive character guides and synopses which make up the last third of the book (230 pages!) the task is a daunting one, with Proust's notoriously labyrinthine sentences equally likely to impede the unwary reader. However, for those who do not wish to start at the beginning, with Swann's Way, this is paradoxically the one volume with which it might be conceivable to start a non-chronological attempt, for it is here that the narrator, identified as "Marcel" (but not to be confused with Proust himself, or not entirely), encounters characters from earlier books, grown older and bearing the traces of the passage of time, and decides to turn the experiences of his life into fiction, into the book we are holding. Throughout, it is Proust's boundless sensitivity to the variety of human experience and motivation, his delicate understanding of the precarious balance between memory and the present, that captivates and entrances.

  Time Regained opens with Marcel visiting Gilberte, for whom he had entertained an adolescent passion. Realising that the places he loved as a child have lost their charm for him, he also reaffirms that he has a "lack of

  
   

• The Captive, The: Pt. 2 (Remembrance of Things Past (Naxos Audiobooks))

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• The Fugitive, The (Remembrance of Things Past, Part 11)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Sodom and Gomorrah: Cities of the Plain Part 1 - [Remembrance of Things Past VII]: Abridged

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Swann's Way (Modern classics)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• The Life and Work of Marcel Proust (Naxos Audio)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Sodom and Gomorrah: Cities of the Plain Part 2 - [Remembrance of Things Past VIII]: Pt. 2

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Swann in Love (Modern Classics)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Swann's Way

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Swann's Way

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Swann's Way: Part 1

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Within a Budding Grove: Part 1

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Within a Budding Grove: Part 2

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Within a Budding Grove: Pt. 1 (Modern classics)

  Marcel Proust

  
  
   

• Within a Budding Grove: Pt. 2 (Modern Classics)

  Marcel Proust