by Marcel Proust · Viena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483305508
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«Combray» is the novel by Marcel Proust that opens «A la recerca del temps perdut», published by Viena in paperback (248 pages, in Catalan).
The text evokes the narrator's childhood in the small French town of Combray, inspired by the village where Proust spent his summers. Amid family memories and present sensations, it narrates the protagonist's initiation into beauty, literature and desire, and includes the famous scene of the madeleine dipped in tisane that triggers involuntary memory.
Number 14 of the «El cercle de Viena» collection, published in 2009, with a translation from French by Josep Maria Pinto; it is the first part of «Pel cantó d'En Swann».
Recommended for readers of classic fiction who want to approach Proust's work through the beginning of his great novelistic cycle.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
