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Date:1922 21 septembre

[Anonyme] , M. Marcel Proust translated. Swann's Way. By Marcel Proust. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. Two volumes. Chatto and Windus. 15s. net , Times Literary Supplement , 21 septembre 1922, p. 596:2.

"[...] And here we think that the translator has made one mistake, if he wished to preserve the quality of the original. He has cut up some of the interminable French paragraphs, with speeches buried in their middles, which are so characteristic of M. Proust. This certainly gives an air of greater lightness and clarity to the text, but neither of these bourgeois virtues is a mark of this aristocratic author. [...]

M. Proust has already achieved a considerable reputation in England; whether it will be greatly enhanced by making him accessible to those who cannot read French easily we do not venture to prophesy. [...]

On the whole, M. Proust stands the test fairly well. If there is disappointment with Swann's Way , it will be chiefly because some of the praise wherewith it has been heralded has been injudicious."

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