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The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

dream_mmdi's review against another edition

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5.0

عاح!
جزعِ پست روحم!
فقط بدونیدنخوندن " در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته " مصداق (خَسِرَ الدُّنْیا وَالاْآخِرَةَ ذلِک هُوَ الْخُسْرَانُ الْمُبِینُ) عه
بقیه رو قبلا گفتم یا بعدا خواهم گفت :))))))

moncoinlecture's review against another edition

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4.0

4,5
Adoré cette partie d l'histoire... Et je suis fan des phrases interminables!

darwin8u's review against another edition

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5.0

“I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.”
― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

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I start reading Proust and it feels like I've submerged into a slow-moving prose river. The water is clean, with gradual bends, but sometimes filled with small boiling eddies, swirls, and reverses. Time and memory move in one direction, but the current of Proustian memory contains an involuntary universe of vortexes and wakes. We fall in and out of love. Our memory of our love becomes bent and refracted as we move away from those we once loved.

Seriously, every time I read Proust I finish thinking he could write a whole novel about one small spot on a random river. An exposed rock or boulder that cuts the flow of the river into two halves could occupy 100 pages as Proust described the nuance of the water around and against the rock. He would obviously need to describe the varying temperature of the water and the way the light moves through the textured leaves of the green forest's canopy. How evening's light danced its crepuscular silhouettes against the reflections of dusk on the churning ripples of a slowly moving river.

That being said:
I'm really glad that Albertine's gone. It all sorta reminds me of that Saturday Night Live skit with Eddie Murphy as Mr. Robinson: 'I'm so glad the Bitch (Albertine) is gone.' Yes, neighbor, I really do think Eddie Murphy's Mr. Robinson was the late 20th Century's answer to Marcel Proust's early 20th century question of what exactly happens when a man lays next to a woman and gives her 20 francs.

lnatal's review against another edition

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4.0

From Wiki:
The Fugitive (Albertine disparue, also titled La Fugitive, sometimes translated as The Sweet Cheat Gone [last line of Walter de la Mare's poem "The Ghost"] or Albertine Gone) (1925) is the second and final volume in "le Roman d'Albertine" and the second volume published after Proust's death. It is the most editorially vexed volume. As noted, the final three volumes of the novel were published posthumously, and without Proust's final corrections and revisions. The first edition, based on Proust's manuscript, was published as Albertine disparue to prevent it from being confused with Rabindranath Tagore's La Fugitive (1921).[2] The first authoritative edition of the novel in French (1954), also based on Proust's manuscript, used the title La Fugitive. The second, even more authoritative French edition (1987–89) uses the title Albertine disparue and is based on an unmarked typescript acquired in 1962 by the Bibliothèque Nationale. To complicate matters, after the death in 1986 of Proust's niece, Suzy Mante-Proust, her son-in-law discovered among her papers a typescript that had been corrected and annotated by Proust. The late changes Proust made include a small, crucial detail and the deletion of approximately 150 pages. This version was published as Albertine disparue in France in 1987.


The original French text is available at La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec.

Cette édition numérisée reprend le texte de l’édition Gallimard, Paris, 1946-47, en 15 volumes :
5* 1. Du côté de chez Swann. Première partie.
5* 2. Du côté de chez Swann. Deuxième partie.
3* 3. À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Première partie.
3* 4. À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Deuxième partie.
3* 5. À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Troisième partie.
4* 6. Le côté de Guermantes. Première partie.
4* 7. Le côté de Guermantes. Deuxième partie.
4* 8. Le côté de Guermantes. Troisième partie.
4* 9. Sodome et Gomorrhe. Première partie.
4* 10. Sodome et Gomorrhe. Deuxième partie.
3* 11. La Prisonnière. Première partie.
3* 12. La Prisonnière. Deuxième partie.
4* 13. Albertine disparue.
TR 14. Le temps retrouvé. Première partie.
TR 15. Le temps retrouvé. Deuxième partie.

teresac's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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