In Search of Lost Time, Volume III



IN SEARCH OF

LOST TIME


VOLUME III


THE GUERMANTES WAY


MARCEL PROUST


TRANSLATED BY
C.K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND TERENCE KILMARTIN
REVISED BY D.J. ENRIGHT



T H E   M O D E R N   L I B R A R Y

N E W   Y O R K

1993 Modern Library Edition


Copyright © 1993 by Random House, Inc.
Copyright © 1981 by Chatto & Windus and Random House, Inc.


All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York.


This edition was originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 1992.


This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of The Guermantes Way by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D. J. Enright.


The Guermantes Way first appeared in The Modern Library in 1933.


Jacket portrait courtesy of The Bettmann Archive.


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
     [Côté de Guermantes. English]
     The Guermantes way/Marcel Proust; translated by C. K. Scott
   Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin; revised by D. J. Enright.
       p.   cm.—(In search of lost time; v. 3)
     Includes bibliographical references.
     eISBN 0-679-64180-7
      v1.0
     I. Title.    II. Series: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.   A la recherche du
temps perdu.   English;  v. 3.
     PQ2631.R63C7413   1993      92-33975
     843'.912—dc20

Contents

PART I

PART II

Chapter One

Chapter Two


Notes

Addenda

Synopsis


Numerals in the text refer the reader to the explanatary notes, which follow the text.

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About the Book

“There has never been anyone else with Proust’s ability to show us things; Proust’s pointing finger is unequaled.”

—WALTER BENJAMIN


“The Guermantes way” is the path that runs past the chateau belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. It also represents the path into “the social kaleidoscope” traveled by Proust’s narrator, which culminates in his introduction to the Paris salon of the Guermantes. The rich cast of characters in this third volume of In Search of Lost Time includes Robert de Saint-Loup, who is obsessed with the prostitute Rachel, and Baron de Charlus, a public womanizer and secret homosexual.

The final volume of a new, definitive text of À la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D.