About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental In Search of Lost Time. William C. Carter is Distinguished Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Reviews

"Professor Carter has provided, once again, what Proust, in describing the function of footnotes and scholarly apparatus in general, called a caisse de résonance. . . . As readers become more and more distant from the Belle Époque and from Third Republic France, they increasingly need the kind of discreet explanatory notes provided by Professor Carter, whose erudition in all matters Proustian is exemplary."—David R. Ellison, author of A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’

"I cannot imagine an edition that could better disseminate not only scholarship, but also enjoyment of Proust’s all-encompassing novel."—Jack Jordan, Mississippi State University

“My favorite translation of Proust is Proust’s first English translator, Scott Moncrieff, but updated and corrected and annotated by one of the greatest Proustians alive today, William C. Carter . . . of whom I’m an enormous fan. . . . Beautifully annotated . . .  An invaluable resource.”—Caroline Weber, author of Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris