« Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure » La question des temps verbaux en anglais (I)

Revising the first translation of the Recherche by Scott Moncrieff, Kilmartin makes two remarks which sum up the project of the author of this study: he underlines the importance of entering into the consciousness of the narrator to understand the thoughts being expressed, the sensations being analysed, and the scene being described; he draws attention to the necessity of continuously asking how Proust would have formulated the sentence being translated, if he had written in English.