Translated by Zhou Kexi, a collection of brand new illustrations! Taste a piece of fresh asparagus; take a breath of spring air; look at a rose-colored cloud; listen to your lover's breath, open "Chasing the Lost Time", and return to the moment when the world suddenly quieted down!
Eating a round dessert, kissing your mother's face, receiving a letter from your sweetheart, gazing at a rose-colored cloud, listening to your lover's breathing... Beautiful moments constitute the eternity of life.
"Chasing the Lost Time" includes three volumes translated by Zhou Kexi - "Going to Swann's House", "Under the Shadow of the Girl's Flowers" and "The Female Prisoner".
Reader comments
"Chasing the Lost Time" uses the taste tremor of "Little Madeleine" as the key to open the eternal passage of the memory labyrinth. Proust weaves the folds of time and space with the threads of the stream of consciousness - the porcelain plates at the Swann's dinner, the silhouette of the girl in the sea breeze at Balbec, the fragrance of the clothes in the Guermantes salon, are all cast into the amber of existence in the narrator's recollection on the sickbed. Albertina's escape and reappearance expose the nature of love as imaginary projection; the decadent silhouette of the aristocratic class in the salon becomes a pathological specimen of civilization corroded by time. When Madame Verdurin's piano sound penetrated the dust of half a century, and when Baron Charles's arrogant mask disintegrated in the tears of his old age, Proust completed the ultimate paradox of "passing": only memory reconstructed through art can reborn time in the alchemy of language. This seven-volume masterpiece is like the flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral, supporting the sky of modernist literature with a frail body, and sublimating a trance next to a tea cup into a spiritual epic of mankind's fight against the entropy of time.
This book is like a beautiful dream, immersing me in the world written by Proust. I particularly like the protagonist. He has a unique insight into the small details in life, which made me start to pay attention to the overlooked beauty. The stories in the book evoked my memories and made me cherish every moment in my life more. The translation is also excellent, the writing is beautiful and it is very comfortable to read. Highly recommended!
Zhou Kexi's translation is so comfortable to read
The writing is delicate and needs to be carefully comprehended
This book is worth calming down and savoring slowly, with its delicate writing style, tangled thoughts, and eloquent narration.
"Chasing the Lost Time" uses the taste tremor of "Little Madeleine" as the key to open the eternal passage of the memory labyrinth. Proust weaves the folds of time and space with the threads of the stream of consciousness - the porcelain plates at the Swann's dinner, the silhouette of the girl in the sea breeze at Balbec, the fragrance of the clothes in the Guermantes salon, are all cast into the amber of existence in the narrator's recollection on the sickbed. Albertina's escape and reappearance expose the nature of love as imaginary projection; the decadent silhouette of the aristocratic class in the salon becomes a pathological specimen of civilization corroded by time. When Madame Verdurin's piano sound penetrated the dust of half a century, and when Baron Charles's arrogant mask disintegrated in the tears of his old age, Proust completed the ultimate paradox of "passing": only memory reconstructed through art can reborn time in the alchemy of language. This seven-volume masterpiece is like the flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral, supporting the sky of modernist literature with a frail body, and sublimating a trance next to a tea cup into a spiritual epic of mankind's fight against the entropy of time.
This book is like a beautiful dream, immersing me in the world written by Proust. I particularly like the protagonist. He has a unique insight into the small details in life, which made me start to pay attention to the overlooked beauty. The stories in the book evoked my memories and made me cherish every moment in my life more. The translation is also excellent, the writing is beautiful and it is very comfortable to read. Highly recommended!
Zhou Kexi's translation is so comfortable to read
The writing is delicate and needs to be carefully comprehended
This book is worth calming down and savoring slowly, with its delicate writing style, tangled thoughts, and eloquent narration.