Proust : A la recherche du temps perdu, tome 1

French language

Published Aug. 6, 1987 by Gallimard.

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978-2-07-011126-8
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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, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. It is his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th century and early 20th century high society France, while reflecting on the loss …

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