Swann in Love

by Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrief (Translator)

Overview

Swann in Love is a study of sexual jealousy that forms a fully self-contained crucial component of the vast, unfolding structure of Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. Swann, owner of large estate and at ease in Parisian high society falls obsessively and publicly in love with the courtesan Odette.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648238874
Publisher:	Skomlin
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Brian Nelson has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. He is well known for his critical studies and translations of the novels of Emile Zola. These include The Cambridge Companion to Zola, Zola and the Bourgeoisie, and translations for Oxford World's Classics of The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (CUP 2015).

Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the life and works of Marcel Proust. His books include Reading in Proust's A la recherche: le delire de la lecture (2009); an illustrated biography, Marcel Proust (Reaktion Books, 2013); and as editor, Marcel Proust in Context (CUP, 2013).

Date of Birth:

July 10, 1871

Date of Death:

November 18, 1922

Place of Birth:

Auteuil, near Paris, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Table of Contents

Introduction
Translator's Note
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Marcel Proust
SWANN IN LOVE
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

"[An] excellent introduction (supplemented by copious notes) [by] the Proust specialist Adam Watt." - Adrian Tahourdin, Times Literary Supplement

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