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Remembrance of Things Past
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Remembrance of Things Past
records the decay of a society. [Fr. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 630]
See : Decadence


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It is one of those works of art you feel you may never get to the bottom of, and some very plausible comparisons have been made between Histoire(s) du Cinéma and other gargantuan, all-encompassing works such as Finnegans Wake or In Search of Lost Time.
Marcel Proust, of course, embarked on his great novel sequence In Search of Lost Time as a much older man, retaining in many ways the helplessness of a child or "spoiled boy" and using the boyishness of Marcel, the narrator and protagonist, to distract us from the author's own sophistication.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 By Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis I haven't finished all in the In Search of Lost Time collection, but it's not because I regret reading Swann's Way, a philosophical novel that, among other things, is about a young Marcel's writerly beginnings.
 
 
 
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