The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of "In Search
of Lost Time," refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess
de Guermantes's chateau near Combray. It also represents the
narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the
Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for
Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners
of the Guermantes's drawing room. Here he encounters nobles,
officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de
Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de
Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino. For this authoritative
English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late
Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's
translation to take into account the new definitive French editions
of "A la recherche du temps perdu" (the final volume of these new
editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in
1989).
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