By introducing the conscience of his Narrator in In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust was making a Copernican revolution in twentieth-century literature and becoming, along with James Joyce and Franz Kafka, the most important writer of the last hundred years. In Search of Lost Time is not a novel of a single facet, but of many: based on partly autobiographical starting points, Proust achieves a narrative of initiation, a critical portrayal of an entire society, a psychological novel, a symbolic work, an analysis of hitherto forbidden sexual inclinations, a reflection on literature and artistic creation.
Based on the recent French editions, which represent a revolution compared to previous editions, this new translation is the first by a single translator, Mauro Armiño; the edition is accompanied by three dictionaries that give the reader immediate contact with Proust's world, with the places of the plot and the characters of the seven parts that, in three volumes, make up this edition of In Search of Lost Time. An extensive annotation and summaries that serve as a guide to the location of scenes, episodes and passages complete this edition, which for the first time puts a coherent and unified text in the hands of the Spanish reader.
