Name: Anonymous 2007-10-27 18:06
Any Proust readers lurking around 4chan and /book/?
Stay away from the new "In Search of Lost Time" translation and go for the Moncrieff "Remembrance of Things Past". As a French speaker (Quebecois) I can say that it's more faithful to the original and Moncrieff's prose definitely reads better.
Stay away from the new "In Search of Lost Time" translation and go for the Moncrieff "Remembrance of Things Past". As a French speaker (Quebecois) I can say that it's more faithful to the original and Moncrieff's prose definitely reads better.