The Captive and The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5

The fifth and sixth volumes of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, The Captive and The Fugitive, are published together as the fifth volume of his epic masterwork. They contain some of literature's most beautiful meditations on art, music, desire, jealousy, love, and loss. This edition is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the original.

Format: Hardback
Length: 784 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Yale University Press

Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel, In Search of Lost Time, is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. The Captive and The Fugitive, the fifth and sixth volumes of Proust's masterpiece, contain some of the most beautiful meditations on art, music, desire, jealousy, love, and loss, as well as grief and forgetting. In this work, Proust continues his vast satirical fresco of high society in France just prior to the outbreak of World War I.

These volumes and the following volume were published posthumously, as Proust died when he was approximately one-third of the way through correcting the proofs for The Captive. The Fugitive was also the last volume translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, who did not live to finish his enormous task. This edition of the two, published together as the fifth volume, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the original.

The Captive and The Fugitive are two of the most celebrated works of French literature, and this authoritative new edition is a testament to Proust's enduring legacy. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the art of writing and the complexities of human emotion.

Weight: 1428g
Dimension: 242 x 201 x 53 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300186215