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1pw0327
Does anyone know when Penguin plan on publishing the remaining three volumes of Remembrance of Things Past?
2enevada
The Prendergast Penguins are complete and have been since 2002 - in the UK. After the first five were issued in the US, Penguin realized it was in violation of US copyright law, thus the last two volumes are not yet available for purchase.
From the le temps du Proust blog:
"In the 1990s Penguin Press, aided by the entry of In Search of Lost Time into the public domain, made arrangements to have each volume translated by a different translator. The idea behind the project, overseen by Christopher Prendergast, was to present a wholly new translation of Proust that both acknowledged the latest Proust scholarship and avoided the English embellishments that had been introduced by Moncrieff. These new translations came out as a set in the United Kingdom in 2002, but were issued separately in the United States. It was only after several of the volumes had been issued in the US that it was acknowledged that due to the recent, inane, extensions of authorial copyright (sometimes known as the Mickey Mouse Law), the final two volumes would not be issued in the United States until substantially later in this decade. See this Slate article from March 2005, which I just found (Sept 26, 05) for information on the problems with publication."
From the le temps du Proust blog:
"In the 1990s Penguin Press, aided by the entry of In Search of Lost Time into the public domain, made arrangements to have each volume translated by a different translator. The idea behind the project, overseen by Christopher Prendergast, was to present a wholly new translation of Proust that both acknowledged the latest Proust scholarship and avoided the English embellishments that had been introduced by Moncrieff. These new translations came out as a set in the United Kingdom in 2002, but were issued separately in the United States. It was only after several of the volumes had been issued in the US that it was acknowledged that due to the recent, inane, extensions of authorial copyright (sometimes known as the Mickey Mouse Law), the final two volumes would not be issued in the United States until substantially later in this decade. See this Slate article from March 2005, which I just found (Sept 26, 05) for information on the problems with publication."
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The last two volumes of the Penguin edition will not be published in the US until 2018(!) due to the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
I've just gotten the volumes (from Amazon.co.uk) for Christmas, but I'll probably buy the American versions when they come out so that I'll have a matching set.
I've just gotten the volumes (from Amazon.co.uk) for Christmas, but I'll probably buy the American versions when they come out so that I'll have a matching set.
