Several of the major translation projects of recent years have gone so far as to abandon even the search for a single authorial voice: Hence, to challenge C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust's multi-volume "Remembrance of Things Past," Penguin has commissioned, under the general editorship of Christopher Prendergast, seven volumes by seven different translators.
He made Sandy read all seven volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past"; it took Sandy two years to do this.
I know people who have read "The Man Without Qualities," both volumes, and "Remembrance of Things Past," all seven volumes, who have never opened a book by Svevo.
In 1913, he had to pay Editions Grasset to publish "Swann's Way," the first of the volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past," and few copies were sold.
Lovers of Proust, get out your headphones: Naxos AudioBooks, a British division of the classical music label, has recorded all seven volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past" on CD — 120 discs, which will take 153 hours to get through.
A seller named Jobgeek e-mailed that a couple of months ago she'd read all seven volumes of "Remembrance of Things Past," and that for $5 she'd provide me with either "three very good comments or five okayish comments" that would make me "sound smart".
At the end of that first volume of 'Remembrance' I found that none of my questions about the book, or the story itself, were answered.
This remarkable adaptation of the final volume of "Remembrance of Things Past" opens in New York on Friday.
In it, he refused to expand on what his campaign did wrong, drawing an almost mystical analogy to Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel, "Remembrance of Things Past".
Baron de Charlus, in full Baron Palamède de Charlus, fictional character, a licentious gay man in the seven-volume novel Remembrance of Things Past (1913 27; also translated as In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust.
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, read by Neville Jason (26hrs unabridged, Naxos, £65) The fourth of Proust's seven-volume epic Remembrance of Things Past also focuses on sensual pleasure, chiefly homosexual, which, though rife and largely accepted in the author's aristocratic social circle, was forbidden.
