Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator

Jean Findlay

C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, 'I was more interested and fascinated by your r...