What did the stacked boxes and baskets of our youth represent but the boundless fruitage of that more bucolic age of the American world, and what was after all of so strong an assault as the rankness of such a harvest?
With admiring eyes I saw, luminous and imprisoned in a bowl by themselves, the agate marbles which seemed precious to me because they were as fair and smiling as little girls, and because they cost fivepence each. Gilberte, who was given a great deal more pocket money than I ever had, asked which I thought the prettiest.
They were as transparent, as liquid-seeming as life itself. James needs to put such human elements more elusively, in inverted commas, and so, delicately, does Moncrieff.
Beginning in a desire to placate English Puritanism, the little cloud of Jamesian evasion extended, charmingly, elsewhere in the book. Fudge is sweeter than straightforwardness, if also always a little more cloying.
Proust is often abstract and usually elliptical, but rarely delicate. The homosexuality had remained a secret to all but his closest friends. All were contemporary, and all have something or another in common with one another, which we, in our plainer times, lack.
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Carter's revised and annotated edition of the original C. Scott Moncrieff translation, published in a handsome large format, with concise and illuminating footnotes running alongside the text in wide margins. Carter gives Moncrieff a thorough revision in the light of the latest textual evidence and often arrives at different conclusions from the Moncrieff-Kilmartin-Enright edition see above.
This edition will be of interest to readers seeking more insight into the multitude of Proust's references - which range over the whole of Western history, culture, and politics - than is offered by the minimal commentary in the Modern Library edition, readers seeking a plush but inexpensive reading copy with plenty of room to add annotations of one's own, or readers desirous of yet another perspective on Proust's text in translation.
The first two volumes of Carter's edition have already appeared in Yale University Press, with more to come. Scott Moncrieff, ed. William C. Carter, Above: Pierre Bonnard , The Lodge , oil on canvas. Image author: Pierre Bonnard. Other Works by Proust in English Translation Before embarking on his novel, Proust wrote in a considerable variety of genres: short stories, some of which were lengthy enough to be considered novellas; essays, articles, and reviews; character and landscape sketches; pastiches; poems; and translations.
Fascinated for several years by the style and thought of the English artist, historian, and theorist John Ruskin pictured at left , Proust translated two of the latter's works into French - The Bible of Amiens and Sesame and Lilies - composing copious prefaces, notes, and commentaries to accompany the translated texts.
The fragmentary novel Jean Santeuil , which Proust wrote - but never published - in the years of his writerly apprenticeship prior to beginning the Recherche , recounts the artistic and sentimental education of a young aspiring writer, not unlike the later masterpiece. Proust also composed a number of famous pastiches - brilliant stylistic exercises imitating the writings of classic and contemporary authors - as well as a considerable number of occasional essays, articles, and columns, which were brought out in literary reviews, magazines, and Parisian newspapers and treated various topics in art, literature, politics, and society.
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