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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.
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Apr 12, 2024 · 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. It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th century.
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12,710 ratings854 reviews. 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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Books. In Search of Lost Time, Volumes 1-7. Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust, 2015 - France. "'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century."--Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman'."--Bengt Holmqvist "Proust so ...
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Oct 16, 2017 · In Search of Lost Time is a series of seven highly acclaimed novels which inspired modern writers with its artistic craft and philosophical insight regarding memory and time. It is often...
This Reader's Guide to Marcel Proust's 3,000-page magnum opus, A la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time], is intended not only for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the humanities, but also for the intellectually curious reader who has heard of Proust's remarkable literary achievement but has not had the time, the ...
Jul 26, 2023 · Learn about the structure, themes, and style of Proust’s seven-volume masterpiece, a monumental work of modernism and a distillation of 20th-century aesthetics. Explore the original French title, the English translations, and the influences of Wagner and Shakespeare on the novel.