The Captive & the Fugitive

by Marcel Proust

Book Overview

The Modern Library's fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive , Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive , the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375753117
• ISBN13: 9780375753114
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 8.1"