![]() ![]() Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. ![]() ![]() Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. In Search of Lost Time is a novel in seven volumes. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others - Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. On the surface a traditional Bildungsroman describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. ![]()
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