In Search of Lost Times: Volume 2

In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann`s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann`s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention-Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks." For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin`s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff`s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).