The Fugitive, Marcel Proust
The Fugitive, Marcel Proust
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The Fugitive

Author: Marcel Proust

Narrator: Neville Jason

Abridged: 3 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2001

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Albertine has finally made her escape from Marcel's Paris apartment, where his obsessive jealousy had turned her into a virtual prisoner. Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect on him of her flight, but soon he is devastated by news of an even more irreversible loss. The penultimate volume of Remembrance of Things Past.

About Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time, which was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. His writings were published in numerous literary magazines, including Le Mensuel and La Revue Blanche, and he also authored the posthumously published Jean Santeuil.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on June 22, 2018

gore. juss. seriously - a perfect book. i am reviewing the captive and the fugitive. separately because even though modern library publishes them together in one volume, i don't want to lose this high i am on after reading the captive. what if the fugitive isn't as good!!?? i will not have the luste......more

Goodreads review by Adam on June 04, 2019

Though these segments of Proust's novel are bundled together, I'm going to treat them as separate entities: Though there are of course great moments - the first reveal, 3,300 pages in, of the protagonist's name, which is like the sun bursting through a foggy afternoon; the cliffhanger ending; the rea......more

Goodreads review by Violet on July 13, 2021

This is the part where Proust puts love under the scalpel. Sexual love. Proust seeks to show us that it is largely delusion. The romantic imagination acting as a magic wand. The transfiguring stardust possessing a limited shelf life. And how the romantic imagination can coax its owner into playing t......more

Goodreads review by Orhan on November 07, 2023

Proust realizes that: "The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection." Hence, he resolves to climb this steep, uncomfortable, slope throughout his novel. However, even with deep introspection, he wasn't able to ove......more

Goodreads review by Roy on September 05, 2017

More than a year has intervened between my reading of the last volume and this one; and yet I find that my reaction to Proust has remained constant. Constant, yes, and complicated. I have this relentless back and forth, tug-of-war reaction to Proust, a mixture of the most intense admiration and absol......more