The Fugitive
by Marcel Proust
French • Volume 6 of In Search of Lost Time • Public Domain • Free to stream
Volume 6 of In Search of Lost Time. Albertine has fled. The narrator grapples with absence, grief, jealousy, and the slow fading of love. Proust writes some of the most piercing passages on memory and loss in all literature.
About the book: The Fugitive
Albertine disparue is the title of the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's seven part novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. It is also known as La Fugitive and The Sweet Cheat Gone. The final three volumes of the novel were published posthumously and without Proust's final corrections and revisions. The first edition, based on Proust's manuscript, was published as Albertine disparue to prevent it from being confused with Rabindranath Tagore's La Fugitive, which was released in 1921.
In this sixth volume of the series, the captive is now the fugitive. Envy and distrust eventually reveal unsuspected and unwanted revelations, such as Albertine's homosexuality, which lead the Narrator to reconcile himself with his melancholy. Happiness still eludes him, and the marriages of his former friends pit him against his own misery, which he tries to cover with indifference.
After the death of Proust's niece in 1986, her son-in-law discovered among her papers a typescript that had been corrected and annotated by Proust. The late changes Proust made include a small crucial detail and the deletion of approximately 150 pages. This version was published in French and translated by Terence Kilmartin, though that translation is now out of print.
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The Fugitive was written by Marcel Proust as volume 6 of In Search of Lost Time.
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