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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
- 1913
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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4.29. 3,531 ratings338 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.
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A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
Sep 24, 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. It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past are the nec plus ultra. Of the seven books that comprise Proust’s roman fleuve, this Penguin edition incorporates the first two – Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove, in the incomparable translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, revised by Terence Kilmartin.
- Marcel Proust
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Nov 20, 2000 · Recognized as one of the major literary works of the twentieth-century, Marcel Proust's monumental seven-volume novel brings together memories of childhood and Parisian society before and during the First World War.
