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

Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by David Williams, University of Sheffield
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.06: French Writing and Culture: Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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First circulation or publication 1913 - 1927

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France (Country of Origin)

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Novel

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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 21 November 2024.]

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

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