Chasing Lost Time

von Jean Findlay

386 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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 trail of writings that describe a man expert at living a paradoxical life: fervent Catholic convert and homosexual gregarious party-goer and deeply lonely interwar spy in Mussolini's Italy and public man of letters a man for whom honour was the most abiding principle. He was a decorated war hero and his letters home are an unusually light take on day-to-day life on the front. Described as offensively brave he was severely injured in 1917 and convalescing in London became a lynchpin of literary society friends with Robert Graves and Noel Coward enemies with Siegfried Sassoon and in love with Wilfred Owen.Written by Scott Moncrieff's great-great-niece Jean Findlay with exclusive access to the family archive Chasing Lost Time is a portrait of a man hurled into war through an era when the world was changing fast and forever who brought us the greatest epic of time and memory that has ever been written.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Historisch, politisch, militärisch
• ISBN: 9780099507086
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2015
• Größe: 198 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Vintage