Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust’s *In Search of Lost Time* is a monumental early 20th-century French novel cycle renowned for its introspective exploration of memory, time, and consciousness through richly detailed, reflective prose.

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instanceOf French literature work
modernist novel
novel cycle
author Marcel Proust
countryOfOrigin France
famousEpisode madeleine episode
fifthVolume The Prisoner
finalVolumePublicationYear 1927
firstPublisher Grasset
firstVolume Swann’s Way
firstVolumePublicationYear 1913
fourthVolume Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
surface form: Sodom and Gomorrah
influenced 20th-century novel
stream-of-consciousness fiction
keyCharacter Albertine Simonet
Baron de Charlus
Charles Swann
Duchesse de Guermantes
Madame Verdurin
Odette de Crécy
laterPublisher Gallimard
literaryMovement Modernism
majorTheme art
homosexuality
involuntary memory
jealousy
love
memory
social class
subjective consciousness
time
narrativePerspective first-person
narrator unnamed narrator
narratorOftenIdentifiedAs Marcel
notableFeature detailed social observation
introspective psychological analysis
long, elaborate sentences
numberOfVolumes 7
originalLanguage French
originalTitle Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time self-linksurface differs
surface form: À la recherche du temps perdu
publicationPeriodEnd 1927
publicationPeriodStart 1913
recognizedAs one of the greatest works of world literature
secondVolume In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
setting Balbec
Illiers-Combray
surface form: Combray

Paris
seventhVolume Time Regained
sixthVolume The Fugitive (1993 film)
surface form: The Fugitive
thirdVolume The Guermantes Way

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