
The Captive: Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 5
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Narrated by:
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Neville Jason
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By:
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Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s widely praised abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, after numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours. The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator’s obsessive love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment. He suspects she may be attracted to her own sex.
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Would you listen to The Captive: Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 5 again? Why?
Remembrance of Things Past is one of the two or three best books ever written. It is full of social, pyschological, socio-economic, quality life, and meaning of death insights. For these reasons this book can be reread many times in a life and discover something new each time. Proust was truly inspired when he wrote these volumesWhat other book might you compare The Captive: Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 5 to and why?
Proust compares to many existential novelists, for example Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Camus.Have you listened to any of Neville Jason’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Neville Jason interpretation and presentation is perfect.If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
You can't make this book into a film would be the tag line. Alternatively ... skip the film, read!Any additional comments?
Proust's writing is beautiful and his insights of life and death breath-taking.Outstanding
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I loved the many experiences here of trying to understand what Proust meant by the idea of being a captive. It’s plenty rich.
Everything is superb in this reading, including, of course, Neville Jason’s narration. He has created a special thing of beauty in all these segments of Remembrance that he has narrated.
If you’re up to it, Remembrance is up to you!
Superb…as Always!
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Story translation and reader are excellent
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Neville Jason's reading is a pleasure to listen to. He was a great voice actor, which makes it easier to identify the characters. it was quite an undertaking to read at 1.25 million words for all 7 volumes. (If all 7 volumes are not available when you read this, please put in a request for the missing volumes to Audible.)
Today, Scott Moncrieff's title "Remembrance of Things Past" has been updated to "In Search of Lost Time", a better translation of the original French. Moncrieff's translation of what is perhaps the greatest twentieth-century novel was a work of art in itself, but the translation included some errors and is out of date. I recommend obtaining William C. Carters translation of this volume in paperback from Yale Press to read or browse (or just use the enlightening notes) when it becomes available, but this is still a great recording.
Excellent reading of The Captive
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Many payoffs, long great scene
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Time Remembered Incomplete but we have five vol.
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fabulous continuation
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A standout performance
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This is the fifth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past. In the Captive, Proust's narrator is concerned about who Obama is in love with. The ardor of Speaker Boehner is face-to-face with the serenity of the House's hatred. The happiness that Congress knows is impossible, their fear that they will be rejected in the next election, faces the narrator with a dilemma -- does he leave the President he thinks he loves, or stay with the President he now ceases to love. The Fall, like the Spring of 17 years before, forces the narrator to shut government down to stir his soul to remind him of a vivid more pronounced period. Thinking of Gingrich, Boehner grips his heart in his hands as he discovers that the President has fled and left him alone, all alone, a captive in his own disgraced and ruined House.
Review #2 (The Bedroom)
Like being stuck in bed, in a full-body cast, at home with your mother as caregiver. You adore her. She is funny, attentive and her house dress smells like your childhood (well, a musty, blurry version of your childhood). Mother Proust cooks you all sorts of nice sweet things, but your childhood bedroom AND bed just seem to get smaller and smaller after just the second word and immediately after the first bedpan.
Reviews of Books Past
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Second favorite volume in In Search of Lost Time
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