Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374119279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Scott Moncrieff. K. She has written for The Scotsman, The Independent, The Guardian, and Time Out, and she lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. Jean Findlay was born in Edinburgh and studied law and French at Edinburgh University, then theater in Krakow with Tadeusz Kantor. She ran a theater company, writing and producing plays in Berlin, Bonn, Dublin, Rotterdam, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She is the great-great-
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, sol. interested in finding out more about one of the great translators of all time (that heroic 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 . "Interesting for two reasons -- a nugget of Proustiana, and a biography of an unusual Scot" according to David Tooke. 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 1910-19Interesting 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 t. 0 period. I happen to belong in both categories. However, those who only are interested in t
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.. K. 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. K. Catholic and homosexual; a partygoer who was lonely deep down; secretly a spy in Mussolini's Italy and publicly a debonair man of letters; a war hero described as "offensively brave," whose letters from the front are remarkably cheerfulScott Moncrieff was a man of his moment, thriving on paradoxes and extremes. The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. Now, in this biographythe first ever of the celebrated translatorScott Moncrieff's great-great-niece, Jean Findlay, reveals a fascinating, tangled life. S
“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