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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.
May 21, 2024 · 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.
À la recherche du temps perdu, couramment évoqué plus simplement sous le titre La Recherche, est un roman de Marcel Proust, écrit de 1906 à 1922 et publié de 1913 à 1927 en sept tomes, dont les trois derniers parurent après la mort de l’auteur.
The 'perdu' in the original French title, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, means both 'lost' and 'wasted', a nuance it is impossible to capture in an English translation
A thousand trifling little details — the charming prodigality of the chemist — details which would have been eliminated from an artificial preparation, gave me, like a book in which one is astonished to read the name of a person whom one knows, the pleasure of finding that these were indeed real lime-blossoms, like those I had seen, when ...
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.
À la recherche du temps perdu est une œuvre romanesque de Marcel Proust, composée de sept parties publiées de 1913 à 1927 : Du côté de chez Swann (1913) ; À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919) ; Le Côté de Guermantes (2 volumes, 1920-1921) ; Sodome et Gomorrhe (2 volumes, 1921-1922) ; La Prisonnière (posthume, 1923) ;
