In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time, exploring the narrator’s awakening to love, art, and memory through his encounters with young women in seaside and Parisian society.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
volume of a novel cycle
alsoKnownAs Within a Budding Grove NERFINISHED
author Marcel Proust NERFINISHED
awardCountry France NERFINISHED
awarded Prix Goncourt NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
EnglishTitle In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower NERFINISHED
explores the narrator’s aesthetic education
the narrator’s awakening to love
the workings of involuntary memory
featuresCharacter Albertine Simonet NERFINISHED
Charles Swann NERFINISHED
Madame Swann NERFINISHED
Odette de Crécy NERFINISHED
the “little band” of girls at Balbec
followedBy The Guermantes Way NERFINISHED
follows Swann's Way NERFINISHED
genre autobiographical fiction
bildungsroman
modernist novel
hasSeasideEpisodes Balbec holiday
hasUrbanEpisodes Parisian salons
languageOfTitle French
literaryMovement modernism
mainCharacter Marcel (the narrator) NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor detailed psychological analysis
extended social observation of French bourgeois and aristocratic society
originalLanguage French
originalTitle À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs NERFINISHED
partOf In Search of Lost Time NERFINISHED
partOfSeries In Search of Lost Time NERFINISHED
positionInSeries 2
precededBy Swann's Way NERFINISHED
publicationPeriod 1910s
setting Balbec NERFINISHED
French seaside resort
Paris
theme adolescence
art
desire
love
memory
social class
time

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Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time secondVolume In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
subject surface form: In Search of Lost Time