In Search of Lost Time
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In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. Th
A first galley proof of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with Proust's handwritten corrections
NRF edition of Du côté de chez Swann, 1917
1923 edition of La Prisonnière. It is labelled as "Tome VI" as Sodom et Gomorrhe was originally published in two volumes.
Illiers, the country town overlooked by a church steeple where Proust spent time as a child and which he described as "Combray" in the novel. The town adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage.
Marcel Proust
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 19
In Search of Lost Time
…Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (IPA: ; lit. 'The Search'), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early twentieth-century work is his most prominent, known for both its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The novel gained fame in English…
Proust in 1900
Marcel Proust (seated), Robert de Flers (left), and Lucien Daudet (right), c. 1894