Albertine Forsvundet by Marcel Proust
After the sudden disappearance of a young woman with whom he had an intense, fraught attachment, the narrator is consumed by jealousy, guilt and the desperate work of memory; he obsessively reconstructs their past, reexamining the possessiveness and self-deception that shaped their relationship and confronting the painful realization that he never truly knew her. The narrative shifts between intimate recollection and philosophical reflection, using the loss as a prism to explore the nature of love, the unreliability of memory, and the way time alters our perceptions of desire and identity. In the aftermath he alternates between anguished longing and reluctant insight, coming to see how his own fears and fantasies sustained an illusion that collapsed with her absence.
- Published
- 1925
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- Albertine Forsvundet
- Albertine Gone
- Albertine disparue
- La Fugitive
- The Fugitive
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