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Chasing Lost Time

The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

Chasing Lost Time( )
Author: Findlay, Jean
ISBN:978-0-7011-8107-9
Publication Date:Sep 2014
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Chatto & Windus
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $59.99
Book Description:

C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, 'I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation': some literary figures even felt it was an improvement on the original. From the outside an enigma, Scott Moncrieff left a...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.2 x 24 x 3.4 cm
Book Weight:0.656 Kilograms



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