La Prisionera

Por Marcel Proust

En busca del tiempo perdido o —de acuerdo con otras traducciones— A la búsqueda del tiempo perdido (À la recherche du temps perdu, en francés) es una novela de Marcel Proust, escrita entre 1908 y 1922 que consta de siete partes publicadas entre 1913 y 1927, de las que las tres últimas son póstumas. Es ampliamente considerada una de las cumbres de la literatura francesa y universal.Más que del relato de una serie determinada de acontecimientos, la obra se mete en la memoria del narrador: sus recuerdos y los vínculos que crean, de ahí que el título no sea El tiempo perdido (como era El paraíso perdido de Milton), sino En busca del tiempo perdido.

Las siete partes son:

Por el camino de Swann (editado por la editorial Grasset en 1913, a cuenta del propio autor, y luego en una versión modificada en la editorial Gallimard en 1919). "Por el camino de Swann" fue incluida en la serie Great Books of the 20th Century ("Grandes libros del siglo XX"), publicada por Penguin Books.
A la sombra de las muchachas en flor (1919, editorial Gallimard; premiado con el Goncourt ese mismo año)
El mundo de Guermantes (en dos tomos, editorial Gallimard 1921–1922)
Sodoma y Gomorra (en dos tomos, editorial Gallimard, 1922–1923)
La prisionera (1925)
La fugitiva (1927, a veces llamada Albertine desaparecida)
El tiempo recobrado (1927).

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Marcel Proust
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 21 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892576285

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist. Born in Auteuil, France at the beginning of the Third Republic, he was raised by Adrien Proust, a successful epidemiologist, and Jeanne Clémence, an educated woman from a wealthy Jewish Alsatian family. At nine, Proust suffered his first asthma attack and was sent to the village of Illiers, where much of his work is based. He experienced poor health throughout his time as a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet and then as a member of the French army in Orléans. Living in Paris, Proust managed to make connections with prominent social and literary circles that would enrich his writing as well as help him find publication later in life. In 1896, with the help of acclaimed poet and novelist Anatole France, Proust published his debut book Les plaisirs et les jours, a collection of prose poems and novellas. As his health deteriorated, Proust confined himself to his bedroom at his parents’ apartment, where he slept during the day and worked all night on his magnum opus In Search of Lost Time, a seven-part novel published between 1913 and 1927. Beginning with Swann’s Way (1913) and ending with Time Regained (1927), In Search of Lost Time is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction in which Proust explores the nature of memory, the decline of the French aristocracy, and aspects of his personal identity, including his homosexuality. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist literature, Proust’s novel has inspired and mystified generations of readers, including Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham.