In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time (French: [À la recherche du temps perdu] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel by the French writer Marcel Proust. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
Structure
| Vol. | French titles | Published | English titles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Du côté de chez Swann | 1913 | Swann's Way The Way by Swann's |
| 2 | À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | 1919 | Within a Budding Grove In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower |
| 3 | Le Côté de Guermantes (published in two volumes) |
1920/21 | The Guermantes Way |
| 4 | Sodome et Gomorrhe (published in two volumes) |
1921/22 | Cities of the Plain Sodom and Gomorrah |
| 5 | La Prisonnière | 1923 | The Captive The Prisoner |
| 6 | La Fugitive Albertine disparue |
1925 | The Fugitive The Sweet Cheat Gone Albertine Gone |
| 7 | Le Temps retrouvé | 1927 | The Past Recaptured Time Regained Finding Time Again |
Plot summary
Marcel reflects upon a number of events that have taken place in his life. He remembers the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War, and his relationship with a girl called Albertine.
In Search Of Lost Time Media
NRF edition of Du côté de chez Swann, 1917
- Proust La Prisonniere 1923.jpg
1923 edition of La Prisonnière. It is labelled as "Tome VI" as Sodom et Gomorrhe was originally published in two volumes.
- Illiers-Combray.jpg
Illiers, the country town overlooked by a church steeple where Proust spent time as a child and which he described as "Combray" in the novel. The town adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage.
- Straus, Geneviève - 2.jpg
Portrait of Mme. Geneviève Bizet, née Geneviève Halévy, by Jules-Élie Delaunay, in Musée d'Orsay (1878). She served as partial inspiration for the character of Odette.
- CabourgHotel.jpg
Grand Hotel of Cabourg, where Proust often vacationed and wrote parts of his novel, is the model for Balbec.
Vista parcial de la costa de la localidad francesa de Cabourg (Calvados, Francia).
- Elizabeth, Comtesse Greffulhe 1905 , by Philip Alexius de Laszlo.jpg
Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe (1905), by Philip de László, who served as the model for the character of the Duchesse de Guermantes
- John Martin - Sodom and Gomorrah.jpg
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, John Martin, 1852. The fourth volume opens with a discussion of the inhabitants of the two Biblical "cities of the plain".
- Caillavet, Léontine de.jpg
Léontine Lippmann (1844–1910), better known by her married name of Madame Arman or Madame Arman de Caillavet, was the model for Proust's Madame Verdurin.
- Montesquiou, Robert de - Boldini.jpg
Robert de Montesquiou, the main inspiration for Baron de Charlus in À la recherche du temps perdu