In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7] By Marcel Proust

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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. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. In Search of Lost Time is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.“In Search of Lost Time” is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century. —Harold BloomAt once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the “nouveau roman”. —Bengt HolmqvistI am in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my eyes… Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that! —Virginia WoolfThe greatest fiction to date. —W. Somerset MaughamProust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century. —Graham GreeneOur second greatest novel after “War and Peace”. —E. M. Forster

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"In Search of Lost Time" is a devastating portrayal of the end of the French aristocracy at the close of the Belle Epoque. They say Proust locked himself in his cork-lined room in Paris for years to write his books from memory, and that he had a perfect memory. Judge for yourself whether his recollection of his conversations with the aristocracy and his friends is accurate.Even in translation there is no comparison with the vision and precise language of Marcel Proust. The film "Swann in Love" (from volume 1) only touches the surface of this 7-volume masterpiece of 20th century literature. You can just read "The Guermantes Way" (volume 3) if you don't have time to read all 7 volumes that are told from the point of view of the youthful, brilliant "M" who has been admitted into the confidences of the French Parisian aristocracy just before World War I. In "The Guermantes Way" the young "M" recounts an 'upstairs/downstairs' story, set mainly in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus affair, of his contacts with the servants downstairs (such as Francoise the Cook and Jupien the Tailor) while obsessively pursuing the aristocratic, beautiful Duchesse de Guermantes who resides nearby (the real-life Duchesse de Chimay-Greffulhe), whose family, through the Duchesse's aristocratic cousins, in-laws, and nephews, (especially Robert Saint-Loup, an army officer posted in rural Doncieres near the coast where 'M' goes due to M's poor health, who is throwing all his wealth at the beautiful young actress Rachel), takes the young intellectual into their family and their 'salon' circle (lunches, dinner parties, teas put on by Paris's wealthy aristocratic women), where 'M' meets the cream of Belle Epoque Parisian society (one assumes much to the dismay of their descendants when Proust publishes in exquisite detail his frank recounting of those connections).The Duchesse de Guermantes' brother in law, the elegant Baron de Charlus, deliberately takes the young intellectual under his tutelage, telling him the reason he will help 'M' socially is, "It is the people of my world who read nothing and are as ignorant as lackeys. . . ¶¶. . . I want you to understand that, if I do you a great service, I do not consider you to be doing me any less a one. Society people have long since ceased to interest me. . .Who knows but that you may be the person into whose hands it is to pass, the one whose life I shall be able to guide and raise to so high a plane?" With this sentiment as his inspiration, the young 'M' retains a vivid recollection of all these encounters, developing his radical insight that the society people he meets are acting out their roles on an invented public stage of their own construction, primarily to absorb themselves in the trivialities of their social activities and thus forestall the profound boredom and pressing sense of their lack of human connection that haunts their day-to-day existence.

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