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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 was a remembrance of things past, not just a celebration of the future.
CK Scott-Moncrieff may have been thinking along these lines when he gave his English translation of A la recherche du temps perdu a title the author hated, namely Remembrance of Things Past (which riffs on a line from Shakespeare), though why he left out Proust's rudery is less clear.
In a sense, the novel is a remembrance of things past, a conjuring much like Proust's of a world of sensation and sensuality, of longing and ecstasy one summer on the coast of Italy.
 
 
 
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