Most people do not realize that Proust can be very, very funny - and in a very cutting manner as well. The 'classy' party scenes, of course, are always to be looked forward to since Proust's commentary is hilariously satirical. The book is packed with memorable incidents. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Guermantes Way? However, this book - THE GUERMANTES WAY - is wonderful to listen to, and some generation (my grandmother's perhaps) was delighted with this translation which - indeed - was the only one in English and made the book famous in the English speaking world. One notes that the first audiobook in the series is called THE REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST for which the newer translation is given as IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME. Sigh! So, as good as this recording is, MR NEVILLE JASON is exhausting himself on outdated material - 2,500,000 words of it before he is finished. Scott Moncrieff version which was famously brought up to date several years ago. Furthermore, the audiobook is the UNCORRECTED C.K. One has to explore various Internet bookstores to find them in this country.

The series will be completed soon, I imagine, but the main frustration altogether resides in the sad fact that after all is completed, it will be of an outdated translation by Scott Moncrieff which, however excellent and widely celebrated, is inferior in some ways to the brand new translations published in England by PENGUIN BOOKS (General Editor Christopher Pendergast) and which, because of a US Random House copyright, are NOT FOR SALE in the United States.

This is the best of the series of seven books now known as Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Unfortunately, only five of the seven volumes have beed recorded on NAXOS in an unabridged form. Where does The Guermantes Way rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Makes a very big reading project a breeze!

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust