Remembrance of Things Past, Volume III The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Reg [Paperback]

The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.Marcel Proust was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, France. His seven-volume novel,À la recherche du temps perdu(known in English asIn Search of Lost Time), which explores themes of memory, became one of the most famous and influential works of twentieth-century literature. Proust continued to work on the novel until his death in 1922.The introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading that follow are designed to enhance your group's discussion ofThe Captive, The FugitiveandTime Regained—books V, VI & VII of Marcel Proust's great masterpiece of contemporary literature,Remembrance of Things Past.

We hope that they will give you a number of interesting ideas and angles from which to approach the work, which has fascinated and enthralled readers since it was first published. This guide follows the classic Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation of the definitive French Pleiade Edition but can be used with any other version or translation. The Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation consists of three volumes published by Vintage Books andThe Captive,The FugitiveandTime Regainedare to be found in Volume III. A separate reading group guide has been prepared for each of the three volumes. More information is available at www.proustguide.com.

1.FOR DISCUSSION OF THE CAPTIVE
Discuss Albertine's position in the narrator's household and the various reactions of François, the mother, and Mme. Bontemps.

2. Discuss the narrator's wide range of feeling concerning Albertine. For example, at one point he observes: I might very well divide her visit to me in two periods, an earlier in which she was still, although less so every day, the glittering actress of the beach, and a later period in which, become the grey captive, reduced to her dreary self, I required those flashes in which I remembered the lcR