Marcel Proust, À la recherche de temps perdu [Remembrance of Things Past]

Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh)
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Marcel Proust’s monumental

À la recherche du temps perdu

[

In Search of Lost Time

] is universally recognised as one of the masterpieces of modernity, a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing. Written over more than a decade and considerably altered by the outbreak of World War I and its author’s tragic experience of love and loss, it is a work of formidable complexity, both in its radically new conception of time and narrative and in its penetrating analysis of history, man and society. Classified successively as an “autofiction”, a novel of remembrance, a

roman personnel

[personal novel] and a philosophical novel, stripped down to its most basic form, the

Recherche

is first and foremost the story of a vocation: “Marcel…

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Citation: Schmid, Marion. "À la recherche de temps perdu". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7168, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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