REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST / À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU: THE SWEET CHEAT GONE / (ANNOTATED & ILLUSTRATED) / ALBERTINE DISPARUE

Volume 6

Sixth Volume in the Series: “Proust Complete Bilingual - English / French - Vol. 1 to 7.”

Each English Volume is annotated and illustrated by P. Segal: PROUST SAID THAT, with different numbers and topics, followed by the original French version.

In this volume: Issue N°6 from “Proustsaidthat Americana Collection”. (31 pages)

Topics: PST goes to Berlin, Paris, and New York, a scholar on translations, Proust Wake of 1996, Proust sightings.

Remembrance of Things Past / À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Previously also translated as In Search of Lost Time is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the Madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume.

The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. In the centenary year of the novel's first volume, Edmund White pronounced À la Recherche du Temps Perdu "the most respected novel of the twentieth century."

“Within a Budding Grove” was awarded the “Prix Goncourt” in 1919.

Translated from French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930)

Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, MC (The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.

Scott Moncrieff published the first volume of his Proust translation in 1922, and continued work on the enormous novel until his death in February 1930, at which time he was working on the final volume of the Remembrance. His choice of the title Remembrance of Things Past, by which Proust's novel was known in English for many years, is not a literal translation of the original French. It is, in fact, taken from the second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past".

About the Series

Translated from French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff:

-Volume I: Swann's Way [1922] / Du Côté de chez Swann (1913), sometimes translated as The Way by Swann's.

-Volume II: Within a Budding Grove [1924] / À L'ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs (1919), also translated as In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. Goncourt Prize in 1919.

-Volume III: The Guermantes Way [1925] / Le Côté de Guermantes (1920/1921)

-Volume IV: Cities of the Plain [1927] / Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921/1922) sometimes translated as Sodom and Gomorrah.

-Volume V: The Captive [1929] / La Prisonnière (1923), also translated as The Prisoner.

Volume VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone [1930] / Albertine Disparue (1925) La Fugitive) sometimes translated as The Fugitive [last line of Walter de la Mare's poem "The Ghost"] or Albertine Gone.

Translated by Stephen Hudson:

Volume VII: Time Regained [1931] / Le Temps Retrouvé (1927), also translated as Finding Time Again and The Past Recaptured.

Topics in the “Proustsaidthat Americana Collection”:

Issue N°1: Proust Support Group, nocturnal liestyle, drugs, Pink Floyd, Stephen Hawking, Dreyfus Affair, madeleines

Issue N°2: Marcel Purroust, neurosis, Fortuny, Bonny DoonV ineyard, French postcards, nesselrode pudding

Issue N°3: Untortured Love, Cacophony Society, Paris and Venice, The Little Phrase, Raymond Chandler, fried sole.

Issue N° 4: Proust's Life and Mine, Rejection, Proust Questionnaire, Florence, Coffee, S. Richter, Combray, bouillabaisse.

Issue N°5: Holiday Madness, The Café Lifestyle, The 1995 Proust Wake, Paris, Our Lady of the Typists, Proust Sightings, Chocolate Madeleines and much more

Issue N°6: PST goes to Berlin, Paris, and New York, a scholar on translations, Proust Wake of 1996, Proust sightings.

Issue N°7: How Proust Can Change Your Life, astrology, absinthe, guns, Proust Wake of 1997, Proust Sightings, coffee éclairs.

Front Cover:

Hélène Standish, born Hélène de Pérusse des Cars.

Marcel Proust is inspired by several models for the character Oriane de Guermantes in his novel, In Search of Lost Time.