Chasing Lost Time by Jean Findlay
C K Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. This book presents a portrait of a man hurled into war, through an era when the world was changing fast and forever.
A first-rate, playful, moving biography -- Roger Lewis * The Times *
Elegant and even-handed biography * Wall Street Journal *
In a hugely readable and well researched biography, Findlay paints a triple portrait of her ancestor – as a devoted family man, homosexual Catholic and cultivated spy – who turns out to be a far more engaging and fascinating subject than one would ever have imagined -- David Robinson * Scotsman *
The final revelation of Findlay’s book is that Moncrieff was far from the perfect Proustian of our imaginationMoncrieff is a lot more fun to be around than his careful sentences might suggest -- Adam Gopnik * The New Yorker *
A fascinating read * The Economist *
Elegant and even-handed biography * Wall Street Journal *
In a hugely readable and well researched biography, Findlay paints a triple portrait of her ancestor – as a devoted family man, homosexual Catholic and cultivated spy – who turns out to be a far more engaging and fascinating subject than one would ever have imagined -- David Robinson * Scotsman *
The final revelation of Findlay’s book is that Moncrieff was far from the perfect Proustian of our imaginationMoncrieff is a lot more fun to be around than his careful sentences might suggest -- Adam Gopnik * The New Yorker *
A fascinating read * The Economist *
Jean Findlay was born in Edinburgh and studied Law and French at Edinburgh University, then theatre in Cracow with Tadeusz Kantor. She ran a theatre company, writing and producing plays in Berlin, Bonn, Dublin, Rotterdam, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has written for the Scotsman, the Independent, Time Out and Performance magazine and lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. She is the great-great-niece of C K Scott Moncrieff.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701181079 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701181079 |
| Title | Chasing Lost Time |
| Author | Jean Findlay |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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