It's a novel of extraordinary scope, encompassing the glamorous whirl of Parisian high society (as well as its dark underbelly), the gentle pleasures of countryside life, the social upheaval of the Dreyfus Affair and the Great War, and the artistic development of our narrator-who may or may not be called Marcel. But readers who are up for the adventure will find much to enjoy in Proust's epic. At the time of his death, much of his famous novel was still to be published, but his reputation and legacy were already secure.Ĭomprising seven volumes, thousands of pages, and well over a million words, In Search of Lost Time may at first seem unapproachable. Marcel Proust, whose novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time) is often considered one of the major literary achievements of the 20th century, died a hundred years ago in Paris on November 18, 1922.
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