num_pages: 554
description: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of make and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family, and as a meditation on different forms of love it has not equals. Proust introduces some of his great comic inventions here, from the magnificently dull M.de Norpois to the enchanting River de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator's life - the Baron Charlus and the mysterious Albertine. The Penguin Proust is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s. Under Christopher Prendergast's general editorship, these superb editions bring us a more rich, comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.(From the book-cover blurb)
language: English
title: In Search of Lost Time Vol 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
titlecomplete: In Search of Lost Time Vol 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
characters: Baron de Charlus, Robert de Saint-Loup, Albertine Simonet, Gilberte Swann, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Narrator/Marcel
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 14369
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
awards: awardedAt: -1609430400000
name: Prix Goncourt, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Allen Lane (imprint of Penguin)