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Introduction
Author: Marcel Proust
Language: English
Genre: Modern literature, Philosophical fiction, Social novel, Fictional Autobiography
Author: Marcel Proust
Language: English
Genre: Modern literature, Philosophical fiction, Social novel, Fictional Autobiography
About the Author
Marcel Proust, (born July 10, 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France—died November 18, 1922, Paris), French novelist, Marcel was the son of Adrien Proust, an eminent physician of provincial French Catholic descent, and his wife, Jeanne, née Weil, of a wealthy Jewish family. After the first attack in 1880, he suffered from asthma throughout his life.
Marcel Proust, (born July 10, 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France—died November 18, 1922, Paris), French novelist, Marcel was the son of Adrien Proust, an eminent physician of provincial French Catholic descent, and his wife, Jeanne, née Weil, of a wealthy Jewish family. After the first attack in 1880, he suffered from asthma throughout his life.
His childhood holidays were spent at Illiers, and he wrote for class magazines, fell in love with a little girl named Marie de Benardaky in the Champs-Elysees, made friends whose mothers were society hostesses, and was influenced by his philosophy master Alphonse Darla.
During these student days, his thought was influenced by the philosophers Henri Bergson (his cousin by marriage) and he became an observant habitué of the most exclusive drawing rooms of the nobility.
In 1896 Proust published Les Plaisirs et Les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of short stories at once precious and profound, Proust helped to organize petitions and assisted Dreyfus’s lawyer Labori, courageously defying the risk of social ostracism. Marcel Proust's Biographer Makes the Case. In Search of Lost Time, like many great literary works, is a quest whose structure resembles that of a symphony.
In 1896 Proust published Les Plaisirs et Les jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of short stories at once precious and profound, Proust helped to organize petitions and assisted Dreyfus’s lawyer Labori, courageously defying the risk of social ostracism. Marcel Proust's Biographer Makes the Case. In Search of Lost Time, like many great literary works, is a quest whose structure resembles that of a symphony.
Review
In Search of Lost Time, also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, 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. Reading it is a transcendental experience. It requires a lot of patience and thought to understand the ultra complex sentences, but the rewards are great.
In Search of Lost Time, also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, 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. Reading it is a transcendental experience. It requires a lot of patience and thought to understand the ultra complex sentences, but the rewards are great.
Those who believe that "time is money" will hate it. Really provocative and insightful. It is a nice quick bedtime story for the kids. they really enjoyed it, really does work wonders putting kids to sleep, they still haven't woken up tho, finished the book five days ago, haven't had dinner in 2 weeks. kids are famished, it's 9 million characters of the author trying to remember what he was doing before he had no life. It is all about how we go behind the lost time.
Time is very precious time once lost is lost forever. we should not search the time which is lost instead go behind the time which is there with you never take time as very easy the one-word time has many importance we should go behind time it will not come behind you. this book talks about horse poop also it has too many pages don't read it takes 10 months to read you only need to read if you are grounded for 10 months.
In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Modern Library Classics) The average reader will spend 70 hours and 11 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. The novel begins with the middle-aged narrator’s memories of his happy childhood.
The narrator tells the story of his life, introducing along the way a series of memorable characters, among them Charles Swann, who forms a stormy alliance with the prostitute Odette; their daughter, Gilberte Swann, with whom young Marcel falls in love; the aristocratic Guermantes family, including the dissolute Baron de Charlus and his nephew Robert de Saint-Loup; and Albertine, to whom Marcel forms a passionate attachment.
Marcel’s world expands to encompass both the cultivated and the corrupt, and he sees the full range of human folly and misery. At his lowest ebb, he feels that time is lost; beauty and meaning have faded from all he ever pursued and won, and he renounces the book he has always hoped to write.
At a reception after the war, the narrator realizes, through a series of incidents of unconscious memory, that all the beauty he has experienced in the past is eternally alive. Time is regained, and he sets to work, racing against death, to write the very novel the reader has just experienced.
In his quest for time lost, he invented nothing but altered everything, selecting, fusing, and transmuting the facts so that their underlying unity and universal significance would be revealed. The Moncrieff/Gilmartin is widely accepted to be the best English translation. This edition was first published in 1989. The novel's major themes love, art, time, and memory are carefully and brilliantly orchestrated throughout the book.
Why you should buy this book?
In Search of Lost Time is a fictional autobiography by a man whose life almost mirrors that of Marcel Proust. The first forty pages of the novel describe the narrator as a young boy in bed awaiting, and as a middle-aged man remembering, his mother's good-night kiss.
Rating for this book: 4.0/5
Why you should buy this book?
In Search of Lost Time is a fictional autobiography by a man whose life almost mirrors that of Marcel Proust. The first forty pages of the novel describe the narrator as a young boy in bed awaiting, and as a middle-aged man remembering, his mother's good-night kiss.
Rating for this book: 4.0/5
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