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THE CAPTIVE Part I

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Neville Jason

Classics • 3.75 hrs. • Abridged • © 1923

Neville Jason strives for clarity and succeeds with distinction. Proust spent more than a decade cloistered in his sickbed, writing his massive, autobiographical novel, or rather, series of novels, In Search of Lost Time. In this volume, published posthumously in 1923, our hero Marcel remembers his obsessive affair with Albertine, whom he sequesters in his Paris flat. Naxos is publishing the entire oeuvre narrated by the indefatigable Neville Jason. No one could undertake such a job thoroughly without decades of preparation. Judging by this, the actor has put in plenty of time, even abridging the text himself. As reader he has a fine voice and excellent technique. He strives for clarity--not an easy job considering some of the author's page-long sentences--and succeeds with distinction. If the resonances at times elude him--well, they elude a lot of people. What he has achieved is well worth hearing. And he deserves plaudits for the sheer chutzpah of taking this job on. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/MAR 01]

Retail pak • Naxos AudioBooks • 2000

CS ISBN 9626346906 $17.98 • Three cassettes

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