Time Regained

The final volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. In Time Regained, the final volume, edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, Proust brilliantly resolves the novel's main themes: love and jealousy, grief and oblivion, time and memory, and the purpose of art and literature. Among the famous passages is the "masked ball" in which the Narrator, after a long absence from society, attends a party at the Prince de Guermantes's and at first fails to recognize his old acquaintances because of the changes wrought by the passage of time. The concluding pages, in which the Narrator recovers his will and discovers the subject matter of his future book, contain many observations about life and art that will remain in our memories.

For Time Regained, Carter uses the translation by Andreas Mayor, a successor to the translations of the previous volumes by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, who died before finishing this volume.

“William C. Carter shows how Proust wanted his novel to be read as a whole and provides commentary crucial to our understanding. The end of a truly Herculean task!”— David R. Ellison, author of A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”
 

"Professor Carter, just as he has done for the five previous volumes, has made Time Regained more accessible, more enjoyable, and easier to read for today’s audiences. His edition of Proust's novel will be the definitive one for a long time."—Pascal Ifri, Washington University in St. Louis
 

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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