The Captive
Marcel Proust · 1923
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Description
The Captive, fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time, was published in French in 1923, after Marcel Proust's death. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's English translation came out in 1929. The narrator now keeps Albertine in his Paris rooms, half guest and half prisoner, while jealousy eats at him daily.
He watches her sleep, questions her friends, and fears her secret past. Albertine, bored and trapped, plans her escape from his control. Their locked rooms become a study of love turned into surveillance. Proust stretches single days across hundreds of pages of fine attention. The volume is his fullest study of jealousy as a form of knowledge.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marcel Proust |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1923 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1.1 MB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |