A la recherche du temps perdu (French Edition)

I've looked at a few different editions of _À la recherche_ in French for Kindle. This is the best one, I think, in terms of introductory material, table of contents, and navigability on Kindle. It is not a critical or scholarly edition (i.e., the "La Pléiade" edition of 1987–89) but presents the public-domain edition of the text in a readable format.The only issue is that the page numbers in Kindle stop at 307. Intriguingly, this is the same page number at which another French edition of _À la recherche_ I have stops. This makes it frustrating for navigating by page number, when something like 60% of the book is marked as "page 307." Perhaps it's just a glitch in the Kindle page numbering feature with French books or something.

Wow, well done. The complete set (in French) plus all kinds of info like lists of characters, places, a section that puts events in historical context and more. Comes with an interactive table of contents and photographs. I'm really impressed. A great use of the ebook format at a superb price.I'm not French, so I use a French dictionary to help me along. I was surprised to find out that the French Dictionary I have--if not all lexicons (Dictionnaire Electronique du Francais, Lucas Nicolato) works with it automatically. You just get it and put it on your Kindle and voila, the Proust connected to it when needed. I have the Kindle Keyboard--if that matters, I don't know.

I bought the Modern Library translation for kindle so I could read it a second time without having to handle the six fat volumes, which I had given away anyway. When I saw this French edition for next to nothing, I picked it up too, so I could see the original French whenever I wanted to. It's a nice edition for the most part, and includes some editorial matter and illustrations.A couple of things:I don't think it's the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition. At least I don't see any sign that it is. That means it doesn't represent the latest efforts in Proust scholarship. Please correct me if I'm wrong.Also, the last title in the series, Le temps retrouvé, doesn't appear correctly in the table of contents. It's there, but it's buried under Albertine disparue, as if it were just some additional chapters under that title.Still, on balance, well worth a download.

Not mine to comment on Proust, other than to say it's a wild ride. More interesting to me, and more within my competence as a reader, is the joy of reading A la Recherche on a Kindle, which by the compressive miracle of digital technology, folded all 4500 odd pages into the something the size and weight of a slim paperback, along with a competent French dictionary, in my case, William C Carter's lively and brief ' Marcel Proust, a Life", and all the many marginal notes, 500 or so in my case, I was compelled to make in the course of reading the seven "volumes", and all instantly accessible to be from my very first notations in Swann's Way. This is a new way to read a master work, as time permitted, and not requiring me to hunker down into a pile of volumes and post-it notes containing my occasional glosses. This volume includes a useful synopsis, but better ones are available online, in various forms of Wiki. What leaves something to be desired is the page layout and paragraph spacing, which is a serious drawback reading a novelist whose tendency it is to tendency to " fill in and stretch out a sentence to its utmost breadth and length, to cram the sentence with a miraculous number of clauses, parenthetic phrases, subordinate clauses, sub-subordinate clause" V. Nabokov.

I thought I was buying the entire book (which I know is extensive), it is just a chapter, which should have been written on the front cover. Very misleading.

I just downloaded this French edition. For a song! And, following the advice of one reviewer, I also downloaded the French Dictionary (all in French). Although it's been nearly 50 years since I last took French (and attempted to read Proust for a French course), I opened the e-book and found it not only easy to read but absolutely amazing to have it recognize the French dictionary, which provided me with instant useful information.Thank you, Amazon! Thank you fellow reader for your advice on the French dictionary. (And by the way, there was no need to change anything in order to get the dictionary to respond instantly, when I pressed a word I wanted explained.)In my retirement I'm going to enjoy the luxury of good literature. Whether in excellent translation or in the original. I'm thinking of reading Proust in English (using a real book), while referring to the Kindle e-book in the original French - whenever I feel like it.I love words. I love when they are strung together beautifully by someone who really knows the language. I love being retired and having "time" - time to read and ponder, whether it's a book or events of my own life.By the way, one person defined "psychotherapy" (my former profession) as "a necessary waste of time". That could describe Proust's "oeuvre" and his life. It could describe retirement - if you really allow yourself to relish the time you have left to waste.I begin to wonder if Zen or Enlightenment is simply a fruit of old age: I've pondered that lately.Fare forward, fellow traveler! Whether with Proust or on your own.

I read the whole 7 volumes twice when I was much younger! It marked my appreciation of literature, my way of writing in French and my understanding of the complexities of human nature.Few authors have dug into their personae's mind. One never forgets the characters, however minor and to this day I relate most of what I read in terms of this work.I will say however that as one grows older (70 +) one feels more in a rush to read what`s comes out or has come out in the past and Proust's style becomes a bit tedious and `affecté`.Still a great and must read.

Need a lot of perseverance to read the long and complicated sentences. Acquire taste. Once you get into it , you will find the beauty of the prose . Excellent craftsmanship.

Everything that can said about Proust has already been said by proper literary critics. He's brilliant on childhood, memory and love. 10 volumes so not a fast read. I'm only 16% in but I'll finish it. Good value - all 10 books for under £3 and I can use my Kindle French dictionary with it to look up words as I go.

Now venturing on the original French for the second time. It will be rather laborious but well worth while after the smoothness of Scott Moncrieffs famous translation

Bien sûr c'est un chef-d'oeuvre et contrairement à certains livres Kindle cette présentation est remarquablement libre de typos (coquilles en français!) et se lit très bien. J'ai 79 ans et c'est avec grande honte que j'avoue ne jamais avoir mis mon nez dans Proust avant cette âge avancé. Il est toujours temps de bien faire, me direz-vous. Mais cela va me prendre encore des mois pour passer à travers les 10 gros volumes de La Recherche du temps perdu! Curieusement Google vous prédit combien d'heures cela vous prendra encore du point où vous êtes arrivés pour finir votre lecture! Comment savent-ils cela? Cela m'a paru un peu envahissant, mais tant pis.

Splendida edizione del capolavoro proustiano a un prezzo ridicolo. Io me lo sono preso per vedere in lingua originale alcune frasi che mi colpivano tradotte in italiano. Ad aver più tempo a disposizione, varrebbe la pena di leggerlo tutto in originale; magari aspetto la pensione...

Reunir todos os textos de Proust num arquivo só é maravilhoso, pena que a navegação seja um tanto quanto desajeitada, espero que tenham melhorado nas edições posteriores.