The Guermantes Way

The third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century Mark Treharnes acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. The third volume in Penguin Classics superb new edition of In Search of Lost Timethe first completely new translation of Prousts masterpiece since the 1920sbrings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. 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.