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In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
- Marcel Proust
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Learn about the plot, themes, and characters of Marcel Proust's epic novel, also known as In Search of Lost Time. The novel follows the narrator's life and loves, and his quest to find meaning and beauty in the world.
Marcel Proust. On the surface a traditional bildungsroman describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death.
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May 21, 2024 · Remembrance of Things Past. In Search of Lost Time, novel in seven parts by Marcel Proust, published in French as À la recherche du temps perdu from 1913 to 1927. The novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth.
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Aug 12, 1982 · Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters.
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3,462 ratings328 reviews. 'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' — Vladimir Nabokov.
Nov 12, 2018 · All 7 volumes of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (or, Remembrance of Things Past) in .epub format.
