Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374119279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Jean Findlay was born in Edinburgh and studied law and French at Edinburgh University, then theater in Krakow with Tadeusz Kantor. K. Scott Moncrieff. . She has written for The Scotsman, The Independent, The Guardian, and Time Out, and she lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. She ran a theater company, writing and producing plays in Berlin, Bonn, Dublin, Rotterdam, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She is the great-gre
“A first-rate, playful, moving biography.” The Times (London)“Jean Findlay has given us at last a full portrait of this admirable man who, for most of us, has until now been only a shadowy figure.” Walter Kaiser, The New York Review of Books
James Connelly said A Remarkable Career of a Remarkable Man. One knew Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff from his translations of Stendhal, Pirandello, the Song of Roland, the Duc de Lauzun, the Letters of Abelard and Heloise, and, most especially, Marcel Proust. But one little suspected his many other dimensions: critic, poet, soldier, spy, saucy and sometimes salacious wit, guardian and . "interested in finding out more about one of the great translators of all time (that heroic" according to Dale W. Boyer. Anyone interested in finding out more about one of the great translators of all time (that heroic, unsung bunch) will definitely want to read this book. I wish even more of it could have been about his translation of Proust, but this is the first, full-scale biography of Moncrieff himself, and gives him his due as a person. En. Interesting for two reasons -- a nugget of Proustiana, and a biography of an unusual Scot This is an interesting book for two categories of readers, I think -- (1) those who enjoy Proustiana, and (2) those who enjoy biographies of eccentric Englishmen of the 1910-1930 period. I happen to belong in both categories. However, those who only are interested in the Proust part will find, probably, only about 15 pages of
Scott Moncrieff, who wrestled with Proust's seven-volume masterpiecepublished as Remembrance of Things Pastuntil his death in 1930. While Scott Moncrieff's work has shaped our understanding of one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, he has remained hidden behind the genius of the man whose reputation he helped build. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time), when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me ." With these words, Marcel Proust's narrator is plunged back into the past. In Chasing Lost Time, Findlay gives us a vibrant, moving portrait of the brilliant Scott Moncrieff, and of the erachanging fast and foreverin which he shone.. Since 1922, English-language readers have been able to take this leap with him thanks to translator C. Now, in this biographythe first ever of the celebrated translatorScott Moncrieff's great-great-niece, Jean Findlay, reveals a fascinating, tangled life. The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust transl