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Series. In Search of Lost Time. Publication date. 1927. Albertine disparue ( Albertine Gone) is the title of the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's seven part novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. It is also known as La Fugitive (in French) and The Sweet Cheat Gone (in English).
- Marcel Proust
- Albertine disparue
- 1927
- 1927
Jan 31, 2021 · Jan 31, 2021. Most Recently Updated. May 2, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 96 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
- French
modifier. Albertine disparue, originellement titré La Fugitive et parfois édité sous cet autre titre, est le sixième et avant-dernier tome de À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, paru en 1925 à titre posthume.
In Albertine disparue, the narrator evokes the disappearance and death of his lover in a terrible accident, already announced in a premonitory way in a previous volume. But it is less the absence of his prisoner that is the subject of the book than the painful persistence of her memory in the mind of the narrator.
At the highest level of generality, La Prisonnière and Albertine disparue constitute a coherent and symmetrical whole, in that the first volume, as its title implies, describes the “imprisonment” of its female protagonist by the narrator, while its continuation details her escape and death.
- David Ellison
- 2010
Jan 31, 2021 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albertine disparue Vol 01 (of 2), by Marcel Proust This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
And yet, Albertine’s original depiction throughout In Search of Lost Time invites and authorizes these latter-day reworkings. Albertine dexterously manages what Proust calls the “social kaleidoscope,” with its endless inversions in status and destiny.
