Happy 150th Birthday, Marclel Proust, you horny old rogue!
Born on July 10, 1871. (150 years and one month!)
I just now purchased Vol. 1 of the
William C. Carter translation, a Proustian scholar who translated the first 4 volumes and is presumably working on the remaining volumes.
This Carter translation is not available as an
ebook in the U.S.A., so I decided to take a virtual flight to the UK - the weather was great, by the way! - where I purchased it from Kobo.
About 20 years ago I read the first volume in the
Scott Moncrieff translation, and then later the
Pleiade revised edition of that first volume. And then, unaccountably, I skipped to volume 4 or 5. And I continued to love what I was reading.
I've now decided to read them in order: The first 4 in the Carter translation, and the remaining volumes in the available Pleiade editions. (I have the
Modern Library ebook which combines all the books in one omnibus volume.)
SPOILER: The butler did it!
