{"product_id":"time-regained-in-search-of-lost-time-volume-6-9780300186222","title":"Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe final volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. In \u003ci\u003eTime Regained\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e the final volume, edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, Proust brilliantly resolves the novel's main themes: love and jealousy, grief and oblivion, time and memory, and the purpose of art and literature. Among the famous passages is the \"masked ball\" in which the Narrator, after a long absence from society, attends a party at the Prince de Guermantes's and at first fails to recognize his old acquaintances because of the changes wrought by the passage of time. The concluding pages, in which the Narrator recovers his will and discovers the subject matter of his future book, contain many observations about life and art that will remain in our memories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For \u003ci\u003eTime Regained\u003c\/i\u003e, Carter uses the translation by Andreas Mayor, a successor to the translations of the previous volumes by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, who died before finishing this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarcel Proust\u003c\/b\u003e (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for \u003ci\u003e? la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. \u003cb\u003eWilliam C. Carter\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298526822674,"sku":"9780300186222","price":93.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12902bdd-62c6-43bf-822e-881af81d354d.jpg?v=1747825655","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/time-regained-in-search-of-lost-time-volume-6-9780300186222","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}