Within a Budding Grove

Name: Within a Budding Grove
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781843796091

Author: Marcel Proust

Narrator: Neville Jason

Unabridged: 26 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 02/27/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. Within a Budding Grove is the second of seven volumes. The theme is one of developing sexuality in which the Narrator visits a brothel and we follow the course of his first love affair with Gilberte. When he visits the seaside resort of Balbec and meets ‘the little band’ of enchanting adolescent girls, he finds one of them, Albertine, especially intriguing but doesn’t yet realise how much she will mean to him in the future. Based on the translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff.

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 Vit on October 30, 2023

Peacockery… Exclusive circles exist under the sign of swagger… However, wishing to magnify themselves in the eyes of the princely or ducal families which are their immediate superiors, these aristocrats also know that they can do this only if they enhance their name with something extraneous to it, s......more

Goodreads review by Manny on July 08, 2024

[Original review of print edition] There's a lot of stuff in Volume 2 of A la recherche du temps perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work, which he started in Un Amour de Swann. There, he......more