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This is a major and important project, and one which has become increasingly necessary for intelligent, non-specialist readers who cannot read Marcel Proust’s vast novel in the original French.”-David Ellison, author of A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' His discreet references to earlier volumes illuminate the strong architectural construction of the book. “Carter has an impressive, encyclopedic grasp of Proust’s novel. A departure from the intimacy of the sprawling novel’s previous two installments, part three unfolds against a colorful backdrop of Parisian life, moving from literary salon to opulent social gathering to provide a biting and satirical commentary on culture, human foibles, the ways of the world, and the irretrievable loss of time. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the author’s original text.Ĭontinuing the story begun in Swann’s Way and continued in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way follows Proust’s young protagonist as he advances through aristocratic French society in late‑nineteenth‑century Paris. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Marcel Proust’s monumental seven‑part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time