{"product_id":"the-prisoner-in-search-of-lost-time-volume-5-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143133599","title":"The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited fifth volume--representing \"the very summit of Proust's art\" (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of \"the greatest literary work of the twentieth century\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarol Clark's acclaimed translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe fifth volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of\u003ci\u003e In Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe titular \"prisoner\" is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of \u003ci\u003eSodom and Gomorrah\u003c\/i\u003e (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family's apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel's judgmental family servant, Fran oise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine's relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying her couture gowns, furs, and jewelry in an attempt to protect her from herself and from the outside world and. And yet in addition to being a tragedy of possessive love, \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner\u003c\/i\u003e is also a comedy of human folly and misunderstanding, linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences, art, irrationality, social snobbery, and, of course, time and memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143133599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Marcel Proust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36634945388700,"sku":"9780143133599","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3b85ecc9-cc31-404f-af04-2ae1db926914.jpg?v=1603838098","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-prisoner-in-search-of-lost-time-volume-5-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143133599","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}