AUDIO

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust
17 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 21½ hrs. Naxos Audiobooks. 2012. ISBN 9781843796060. $98.98; digital download. CLASSIC
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This is a new recording of C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation of the first book in Proust's early 20th-century, seven-volume French classic Remembrance of Things Past (À la Recherche du Temps Perdu). Read today mostly by students, it is a careful and deliberate examination of human feelings and interactions. Narrator Neville Jason has a beautiful voice, but his pace is extremely slow, even when compared with that of the far-from-speedy John Rowe (17 CDs vs. nine CDs), who voiced the older BBC production. This is a major disadvantage when listening to such a long text.
VERDICT While an audiobook of this work will be enjoyed by lovers of European classics and should be part of all academic and large public library collections, if there is a choice, the faster Rowe recording is preferred.
Reviewed by I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Community Coll., Boone, IA , May 01, 2012
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