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La Prisonnière (À la recherche du temps perdu #5)

Marcel Proust

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 2000 Users | 157 Reviews

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Title	:	La Prisonnière (À la recherche du temps perdu #5)
Author	:	Marcel Proust
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	January 10th 2000 by Folio (first published 1923)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. Novels. 20th Century

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It will soon be a year since I read this book so writing a review of it now seems almost impossible. How can I ever retrieve all the thoughts I had about the fifth book in Proust’s seven-volume series (actually the eight in my ten-volume edition). It begins to seem like a sadly futile recherche du temps perdu.

And yet, the urge to write something, I often wonder for whom I write my reviews, of course for myself most definitely, it bothers me a lot to leave a book unreviewed now that I have adopted this practice of recording impressions left on my mind by what I have read, that by posting them in a public place, I intend the words to be read by others as in the diaries people wrote hoping they might be published one day and which surely were being censored as they wrote, so yes, I censor as I write and Proust did too, searching for just the right coded formula with which to convey his preoccupations most clearly and most opaquely at the very same time, a neat trick, and confusing sometimes, especially when I try to do it.

Now you are confused too, no doubt, if you are still reading.
Confused not only by the particularly rambling nature of that sentence but also because I included some anacolutha, some breaks in grammatical sequence, but not without a reason, you’ll be relieved to hear. The narrator of La Prisonniere mentions the word anacoluthe when referring to the confusing nature of his lover's speech patterns - she had the habit of breaking grammatical sequence when she spoke, it seems. But what is more interesting even than his commenting on Albertine’s less than coherent meanderings is what he said right afterwards: he tells us that he failed to recall the beginning of one such crooked sentence because ma mémoire n'avait pas été prévenue à temps; elle avait cru inutile de garder copie, his memory hadn’t been warned in time and had not thought it necessary to ‘save’ a copy of the beginning of the sentence. And yes, he wrote that line one hundred years ago.
So, my long, meandering, crookedly expressed argument is building up to a particular point: that my memory, even if it were able, has failed to save a copy of my initial impressions on reading this book.

But fortunately for you I have a way to regain that lost time.
Yes, I can step back in time and reread the online discussions in which I participated here on gr last year while I was reading Proust. So, much to my relief and yours too, I'm guessing, I have been able to reconstruct a review from the comments I posted while I was reading the book. I’m also very grateful for the fact that I participated so actively in the group - I posted many, many comments, almost more than anyone else, I’ve been told. But don’t run away, I’ve edited those comments radically and will also try to observe normal grammatical sequence during the rest of this review.

There is a strand running through Proust’s entire work which is particularly well highlighted in this fifth book of the series: that strand is the continuous interweaving of the sensual and the anxious, du motif voluptueux et du motif anxieux.

While it is present from the beginning of the series when the boy narrator suffers from the constant tension between the exquisite pleasure with which he anticipate his mother’s goodnight kiss and the unbearable anxiety he experiences each evening lest the kiss be withheld, nowhere is it more apparent than in this volume, devoted almost entirely to the Narrator’s alternating feelings for Albertine so that the book becomes an unending waltz between the extremes of passion and perturbation, for the narrator, for Albertine, and sometimes for the reader. I found myself torn between impatience at the narrator’s prevarications over Albertine on the one hand and admiration for the way that the inner world of the narrator as artist had begun to be revealed on the other. Because what is really notable about this fifth book in the series is the shift in mood that takes place during the course of the year or so spanned by this volume, a shift that is mirrored by a change in the narrator’s opinions regarding the music that has been playing in the background since the beginning of the Recherche, the Vinteuil sonata containing the petite phrase that has been the musical motif accompanying many key moments.

In this volume, the narrator discovers some of Vinteuil’s more mature works, a septet in particular where the original phrase he loved so much has been transformed, and which satisfies him in a way that the earlier sonata version fails to do anymore. He likens the sonata to a Bellini angel playing a lute (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] whereas the septet is a Mantegna archangel blowing a military style trumpet (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)].

And what does this trumpet announce? Cette question me paraissait d'autant plus importante que cette phrase était ce qui aurait pu le mieux caractériser - comme tranchant avec tout le reste de ma vie, avec le monde visible - ces impressions qu'à des intervalles éloignés je retrouvais dans ma vie comme les points de repère, les amorces, pour la construction d'une vie véritable: l'impression éprouvée devant les clochers de Martinville, devant une rangée d'arbres près de Balbec.
He seems to be saying that it reminds him of all the embryonic writerly episodes of his life so far; that it is leading him towards his destiny as a writer.

And so we see how the keystones of the entire work were carefully laid in place right at the beginning - we knew that the steeples of Martinville seen from Dr Percepied's carraige as it moved along the twists and turns of the roads around Combray, and the three trees outside Balbec, seen from Mme de Villeparisis's carriage, were each significant episodes but we didn't yet know the role they would play, that their significance would be best explained through Vinteuil's new and transformed 'petite phrase' in this fifth volume of the Recherche in which the narrator works through his passion for Albertine and emerges at the end as the writer he didn’t know he could become.

Details Books During La Prisonnière (À la recherche du temps perdu #5)

Original Title:	La Prisonnière
ISBN:	2070381773 (ISBN13: 9782070381777)
Edition Language:	French
Series:	À la recherche du temps perdu #5
Literary Awards:	Премія «Сковорода» (2001)

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A whole volume on stalking and jealousy. What more could one possibly wish for.

More than a commentary on Swanns jealousy or M. Charluss homosexuality or the frivolity of the Guermantes sorties, Marcel Prousts monumental work In Search of Lost Time paints the unsuccessful reconstruction of a forgone world and a lost existence from fickle memories, which like morning mists would fade with the rising sun. The narrator Marcel, longing for a past that didnt exist but must be created, sought to experience Bergsons continuous time rather than the fragmented and still-framed

Volume 5, this block of 400 pages of obsessive and paranoid love, and its effects induced.Published in 1923, the first of three volumes released after Proust's death, La Prisonnière, volume 5 of "La Recherche", is also the only one with "the time found" to propose no division into chapters, and this is in my opinion not at all insignificant, when one has been able to gauge, during the four preceding volumes, the extremely precise roles that Proust assigns to these divisions and their

It's hard to believe this is my third time through this thing (ISOLT). I swear that I am never reading it again (though I suppose I'm not the first person to say that while reading this particular volume). Thank god that "Time Regained" is just around the corner.

In this book, we see dissected like a frog in a laboratory, the obsessive possessive behaviour of the narrator who is hopelessly in love with Albertine and wished to capture her and hold her prisonner but does not seem to realize that Albertine is not just a bird in a cage but a free spirit needing release (he will learn this very painfully later one.) It is the shortest book of La Recherche I believe and there was a beautiful French movie made from it with Romain Duris. It ends in tragedy which

Holy shit is Marcel a terrible person. I loved this book, but that discomfort you get when reading these books felt especially amped up here, with Marcel coming up with new ways to manipulate and keep tabs on Albertine. I spent the entire book rooting for her to get the fucking away from this slimy, disgusting man, and pumped my fist at the end when she finally did.

The Captive is the most notorious volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time for both its strangeness and complexity. Through its focus on the obssessive and forbidden nature of desire it could be likened to novels such as Nabakov's Lolita, though without being as readable. This is because The Captive is intermingled with the narrators memories from the previous four volumes, which also act as a build up to the downfall and escape of the two main characters Albertine (the narrator's lover)