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"The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C.K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece. 'And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time), when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me.' With these words, Marcel Proust's narrator is plunged back into the past. Since 1922, English-language readers have been able to take this leap with him thanks to translator C.K. Scott Moncrieff, who wrestled with…
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7 editions- Paperback · English · 2015Chasing Lost Time : The Life of C.K. Scott MoncrieffVintage Books · 250 pages · 9780099507086
- Paperback · EnglishChasing Lost Time : The Life of C. K. Scott MoncrieffFarrar, Straus and Giroux · 368 pages · 9780374536039
- Other · English · 2023Chasing Lost Time : The Life of C. K. Scott MoncrieffPicador · 9781250906762
- Other · English · 2015Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 351 pages · 9780374119270
- Other · English · 2015Chasing Lost Time : The Life of C. K. Scott MoncrieffFarrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374714017
- Other · English · 2015Chasing Lost Time : The Life of C. K. Scott MoncrieffPenguin Random House · 9781473521902
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