In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

• Publisher: Classic Echo
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9782700198638
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

What if a single taste, scent, or sound could unlock an entire lost world? In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is one of the monumental achievements of modern literature—a vast exploration of memory, time, love, art, society, desire, and human consciousness. Through the narrator's reflections and experiences, Proust transforms seemingly ordinary moments into profound explorations of the past. Memories return unexpectedly, relationships evolve, and the passage of time changes how people understand themselves and one another. The novel moves through the sophisticated social world of French society, portraying friendships, romances, family relationships, artistic ambitions, jealousy, social aspirations, and the subtle rules governing social life. Proust's extraordinarily detailed psychological observations reveal how desire, memory, and perception shape human experience. At its heart, the work asks enduring questions: Can the past truly be recovered? How does memory shape identity? What makes love endure? Can art preserve experiences that time destroys? For readers interested in Marcel Proust, French literature, modernist fiction, psychological novels, literary classics, philosophy of memory, European literature, romance, and social fiction, In Search of Lost Time offers one of literature's richest explorations of consciousness and the passage of time. Slow down, remember, and enter Proust's extraordinary world of memory, love, art, and lost time. Discover one of the defining masterpieces of twentieth-century literature today.

Table of contents

• IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME (COMPLETE COLLECTION)
• SWANN’S WAY
• WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE
• THE GUERMANTES WAY
• CITIES OF THE PLAIN
• THE CAPTIVE
• THE SWEET CHEAT GONE
• TIME REGAINED