Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review
Indispensable... the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann.

Claire Messud, Newsday
A sensitive and direct translation... Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust.

Book Description
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.

About the Author
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century. Lydia Davis is an acclaimed fiction writer. Made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her translations, Davis was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertainingreading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way. even such giants as Joyce and Mann. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review) service in bringing us back to Proust. (Claire Messud, Newsday)

Author Biography: Marcel Proust (1871￯﾿ﾽ1922) was the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century.

Lydia Davis is an acclaimed fiction writer. Made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her translations, Davis was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.

SYNOPSIS

'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

It is marvelously about life. It reminds me of Dickens, Shakespeare, Moliere. Proust was, among other things, one of the great comic writers of all time. — Terence Kilmartin

There has never been anyone else of Proust's ability to show us things; Proust's pointing finger is unequaled. — Walter Benjamin

Reading Swann's Way was a raptorous experience. — Jonathan Lyons