Marcel Proust / Philippe Jullian - A la recherche du temps perdu - 1969

Charming set in 7 numbered and illustrated volumes of this edition presented as a vast fictional and introspective construction dedicated to memory, time, society, and artistic creation -

The first volume, Swann’s Way, introduces the work’s fundamental themes: involuntary memory, embodied by the famous episode of the madeleine, the first sensitive experiences of childhood in Combray, and the portrayal of the social world through the figure of Swann and his love for Odette -

The second volume, In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, explores the narrator’s adolescence, his blossoming desires, his first romantic experiences, and his discovery of the fashionable world, notably at Balbec, where he observes a group of young girls who embody for him the beauty and mystery of desire -

The third volume, The Captive Side of Guermantes I, marks the narrator’s entry into aristocratic circles, where he discovers the codes, illusions, and hierarchies of high society -

The fourth, The Captive Side of Guermantes II, deepens this worldly immersion while showing the narrator’s progressive disillusionment with the superficiality of aristocratic milieus and with the transformation of time on beings -

The fifth volume, Sodomy and Gomorrah, introduces darker themes, notably questions of desire, homosexuality, social appearances, and secrets hidden behind human behaviors, while continuing the panorama of fashionable society -

The sixth volume, The Prisoner, centers on the narrator’s possessive relationship with Albertine, analyzing the mechanisms of jealousy, attachment, and emotional confinement, in an intense reflection on romantic suffering and the control of the other -

Marcel Proust / Philippe Jullian - In Search of Lost Time - 1969 - Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII - Gallimard -
458-528-390-485-466-489-365 Pages.

Very good condition of bindings, volumes in full emerald green leather adorned by the publisher, with light signs of wear, smooth backs nicely decorated, gilded lettering, tomaison and author’s name, gilded borders framing the covers -

Very good interior condition, title pages printed in red and black, volumes enriched with fine black engravings hors texte, the text of this edition conforms to the La Pléiade edition, revised and established from the autograph manuscripts by Pierre Clarac and André Ferré, signed/limited exemplar, red endpapers in very good condition -

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