Marcel Proust

Kayıp Zamanın İzinde, Marcel Proust'un hayatının son 17 yılında yazdığı yaklaşık Bir milyon ikiyüz elli bin sözcükten oluşan 3000 sayfalık dev romandır. 20. yüzyıl edebiyatının en büyük eserlerinden biri sayılır. Proust bu romanı annesinin 1905'deki ölümünden sonra yazmaya başladı. Kitabın ilk cildi 1913'te …

In this conclusion to this section of Proust’s classic, we get to understand what he means by budding grove.’ As the summer on the beach winds down, the adolescent Proust is increasingly smitten by the young beauties his age he passes by but never gets to meet... until a well-known painter gives him that very chance. …

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter …