Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time. William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
"Professor Carter has provided, once again, what Proust, in
describing the function of footnotes and scholarly apparatus in
general, called a caisse de résonance. . . . As readers become more
and more distant from the Belle Époque and from Third Republic
France, they increasingly need the kind of discreet explanatory
notes provided by Professor Carter, whose erudition in all matters
Proustian is exemplary."—David R. Ellison, author of A Reader’s
Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’
"I cannot imagine an edition that could better disseminate not only
scholarship, but also enjoyment of Proust’s all-encompassing
novel."—Jack Jordan, Mississippi State University
“My favorite translation of Proust is Proust’s first English
translator, Scott Moncrieff, but updated and corrected and
annotated by one of the greatest Proustians alive today, William C.
Carter . . . of whom I’m an enormous fan. . . . Beautifully
annotated . . . An invaluable resource.”—Caroline Weber,
author of Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the
Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris
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