6/30/2023 0 Comments In search of lost time volume 1Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. "In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. 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. 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. "Proust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century." -Graham Greene Oh if I could write like that!" -Virginia Woolf "Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman'." -Bengt Holmqvist Summary "'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." -Harold Bloom READ In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust, Masterpiece Everywhere
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