![]() ![]() This richness of meaning is important to the novel's main themes. What's still missing is the double entendre of temps perdu, which in French means both lost time and wasted time. Scott Fitzgerald gave his opinion: "Scott Moncrieff's Proust is a masterpiece in itself." Modern Library edition replaced Scott Moncrieff's original title Remembrance of Things Past with In Search of Lost Time, as close as one can get to the original. Scott Moncrieff's extraordinarily fine English translation of the first six parts. Part of the reason for the book's success is C. Proust's big gamble paid off, validating his own notion that powerful, original works create their own posterity. Prior to publication, he explained to a fellow writer, awed by Proust's talent but fearful that the unprecedented length would discourage readers, that the work had to be long because he was intent on "showing the effects of time on a group of characters." 1 Given its complex nature and unprecedented length Proust knew that he was taking a huge gamble by deciding to put everything he had to say about his own experience and his observations about the human condition into one enormous novel. Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. ![]()
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