In Search of Lost Time

About Proust

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913–1927) is the longest novel in the French tradition and one of the greatest works of literature in any language — a seven-volume meditation on memory, time, art, love, jealousy, and social class in late 19th and early 20th century France, organized around the discovery that involuntary memory can recover the full sensory reality of the past.