Time Regained

Time Regained by Marcel Proust

In Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, the narrator embarks on a journey of self-discovery and reflection. He begins by revisiting the places of his childhood, and gradually moves through his life, reflecting on the people and events that have shaped him. Along the way, he discovers the power of memory and the importance of understanding the past in order to move forward. The novel is divided into seven volumes, each of which is further divided into several sections. The first volume, Swann's Way, introduces the narrator and his family, as well as the character of Charles Swann, a wealthy Jewish socialite. The second volume, Within a Budding Grove, follows the narrator's first love affair and his introduction to the world of high society. The third volume, The Guermantes Way, focuses on the narrator's relationship with the aristocratic Guermantes family. The fourth volume, Sodom and Gomorrah, follows the narrator's exploration of the decadent and immoral world of the Parisian upper class. The fifth volume, The Captive, focuses on the narrator's relationship with Albertine, a young woman he is infatuated with. The sixth volume, The Fugitive, follows the narrator's attempts to understand Albertine and their relationship. The seventh and final volume, Time Regained, follows the narrator's return to the places of his childhood and his eventual understanding of the past.

By Marcel Proust · First published 1913 · Genre: Modernist Literature, Realism, Romance · 3 chapters · 119,398 words

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Translated by Stephen Hudson Tansonville seemed little more than a place to rest in between two walks or a refuge during a shower. Rather too countrified, it was one of those rural dwellings where every sitting-room is a cabinet of greenery, and where the roses and the birds out in the garden keep you company in the curtains; for they were old and each rose stood out so clearly that it might have been picked like a real one and each bird put in a cage, unlike those pretentious modern decorations in which, against a silver background, all the apple trees in Normandy are outlined in the Japanese manner, to trick the hours you lie in bed. I spent the whole day in my room, the windows of which opened upon the beautiful verdure of the park, upon the lilacs of the entrance, upon the green leaves of the great trees beside the water and in the forest of Méséglise. It was a pleasure to contemplate all this, I was saying to myself: "How charming to have all this greenery in my window" until suddenly in the midst of the great green picture I recognised the clock tower of the Church of Combray toned in contrast to a sombre blue as though it were far distant, not a reproduction of the clock tower but its very self which, defying time and space, thrust itself into the midst of the luminous greenery as if it were engraved upon my window-pane. And if I left my room, at the end of the passage, set towards me like a band of scarlet, I perceived the hangings of a little sitting-room which though only made of muslin, were of a scarlet so vivid that they would catch fire if a single sun-ray touched them.

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Coming-of-age · France · In Search of Lost Time · Marcel Proust, 1871-1922 · Modernism · Novel · Remembrance of Things Past · Time · age · albertine · art · believed

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