In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time is a monumental seven-volume novel about memory, desire, society, art, and the passage of time. Told through the narrator’s reflections on childhood, love, jealousy, social life, and artistic awakening, the work moves through France from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, including the world of bourgeois families, aristocratic salons, the Dreyfus Affair, and World War I. It is especially famous for its treatment of involuntary memory, most notably the madeleine episode, and for its searching exploration of how time reshapes identity, love, and experience.
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- Published
- 1913
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Very Long
- Pages
- 3000-4300
- Original Language
- French
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- A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Three Volume Pleiade Edition
- A la recherche du temps perdu
- Alla Ricerca Del Tempo Perduto
- Em Busca Do Tempo Perdido
- Em Busca do Tempo Perdido
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