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‘Sublime… Proust’s great opus… In Proust’s interweave of romantic delusions, the glory of the descriptions, as the narrator strives to recapture the past, redeems everyone’ 
John Updike

In Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. A superb picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing in the Bal des Têtes sequence one of Proust’s most devastating set-pieces, Finding Time Again triumphantly describes the paradox of facing mortality yet overcoming it through the act of writing. As Marcel rediscovers his vocation, he realizes that he can live on by writing down the story of his own memories and of his search to recapture the past.

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‘Some of my greatest pleasure this year came from dipping into new translations of old favourites, in particular … Ian Patterson’s Finding Time Again which had me laughing out loud at Proust’s wit’ 
Lisa Appignanesi, Independent Books of the Year

‘Ian Patterson’s rendition is very good, highly attentive to the original’ 
David Sexton, Evening Standard

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