The most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled.
Marcel Proust(1871-1922) spent his twenties as a conspicuous
society figure, but after 1907 he rarely emerged from a cork-lined
room in his apartment where he devoted himself to the composition
ofIn Search of Lost Time.
Harold Augenbraumis the executive director of the National Book
Foundation and founder of the Proust Society of America, and he has
previously translated Jose Rizal and Alvar Nonez Cabeza de Vaca for
Penguin Classics. He lives in New York City.
"No doubt anyone with an interest in Marcel Proust will be grateful
for Penguin's new dual language edition of The Collected Poems,
incisively edited by Harold Augenbraum and drawing on the work of
20 translators. But devotees of David Foster Wallace, Jorge Luis
Borges, Julio Cortazar, Jean Rhys -- even Kenneth Burke -- will
also be enthralled: if an infinite book has no beginning or end,
then surely this is one. Augenbraum's introduction and hugely
entertaining notes help make the volume at least three books,
really. Palimpsest or holographic to the poems, Augenbraum's given
us a biography of Proust as well as an engrossing cultural history,
a cubist portrait of the writer's milieu and his most intimate
friendships. [ ...] All along the book has been a network of
boulevards and gardens, cross streets and alleys, and we are
flaneurs, flaneuses, wandering once more through Proust's youth,
roaming through the middle of the text again, and we find there
much worth discovering, much worth remembering."
—John Hennessey, Huffington Post
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