Remembrance of things past [audiobook] / Marcel Proust ; read by Neville Jason.
By: Proust, Marcel [author]
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Contributor(s): Jason, Neville [narrator].
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SoundSeries: Naxos audiobooks.Surrey : Naxos Audiobooks, 2004Description: 39 audio discs (48h. 55m. ): digital ; 4 3/4 in.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9626342536; 9789626342534.Subject(s): Autobiographical fiction | Audiobooks | France -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 843.912 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Audio Book | 843.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00159606 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Remembrance of Things Past looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. This boxed set contains all 12 volumes of Remembrance of Things Past, as well as a biography of its author, Marcel Proust.
Remembrance of things past is a translation of the seven-volume work, A la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust.
This box set includes the twelve volumes of Proust s masterwork alongside the new biography written by Neville Jason.
Swann's Way: Parts II and III (Abridged) -- Guermantes Way (The): Part II (Abridged) -- Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain): Part I (Abridged) -- Within a Budding Grove: Part II (Abridged) -- Guermantes Way (The): Part I (Abridged) -- Within a Budding Grove: Part I (Abridged) -- Swann's Way: Part I (Abridged) -- Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain): Part II (Abridged) -- Captive (The): Part I (Abridged) -- Captive (The): Part II (Abridged) -- Fugitive (The) (Abridged) -- Time Regained (Abridged) -- Life and Work of Marcel Proust (The) (Unabridged)
Neville Jason.
Proust great work, the major French literary statement of the 20th Century, looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. It is extraordinary not only in its length, but for the remarkable observations on the aspirations, the foibles and emotions of life. Once experienced, "A La Recherche du temps Perdu" and the voice of Proust are never forgotten. This box set contains all 12 volumes, from "Swann s Way" to "Time Regained" and includes the biography "The Life and Works of Proust" written and ready by Neville Jason who through his recording of "Remembrance of Things Past" for Naxos AudioBooks has become the voice of Proust for a generation.
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Post-World War II tales of displaced Europeans escaping to an uncertain future Down Under. First published in Australia; read by Deidre Rubenstein. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Proust is one of the seminal figures in modern literature, matched only in stature by Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Kafka. By the last decade of the 19th century, the charming and ambitious Proust, born into a wealthy bourgeois family, was already a famous Paris socialite who attended the most fashionable salons of the day. The death of his parents in the early years of the 20th century, coupled with his own increasingly ill health, made of Proust a recluse who confined himself to his cork-lined bedroom on the Boulevard Haussmann. There he concentrated on the composition of his great masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-27). In recent years, it was discovered that he had already prepared a first draft of the work in the 1890s in Jean Santeuil, which was only published posthumously in 1952.Remembrance of Things Past resists summary. Seeming at turns to be fiction, autobiography, and essay, Remembrance is a vast meditation on the relationship between time, memory, and art. In it the narrator, who bears the same first name as the author, attempts to reconstruct his life from early childhood to middle age. In the process, he surveys French society at the turn of the century and describes the eventual decline of the aristocracy in the face of the rising middle class. The process of reconstruction of Marcel's past life is made possible by the psychological device of involuntary memory; according to this theory, all of our past lies hidden within us only to be rediscovered and brought to the surface by some unexpected sense perception. In the final volume of the work, the narrator, who has succeeded in recapturing his past, resolves to preserve it through the Work of Art, his novel.
He died of pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess in 1922. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography)