Traduction du sens du passé – perdu et si imparfait – L’œuvre de Proust en anglais par Scott Moncrieff

Interwoven at the heart of Proust’s work are the themes of memory, writing and perception. Proust unveils a variety of moments in the past that are revealed through their temporality – and this is largely due to the use of the imperfect indicative/subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive in French. The ultimate goal of the translator is to try and decode the pace of the sentences, (re)weave this mixture of tenses and modes, while attempting to provide adequate forms for the imperfect and the unreal past.