The Captive & The Fugitive
Author: Marcel Proust
“Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.”–Graham GreeneThe Modern Library’s fifth volume of Proust’s masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living with his lover, Albertine, in his mother’s Paris apartment. He….Read More
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