SEARCH LOST TIME – Romance by Marcel Proust

From the age of nine Marcel Proust had had his first serious asthma attack, and was therefore considered a sick child. Proust’s mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Alsace. At age eleven, he became a pupil of the Lycee Condorcet, but his education was interrupted by his illness. He had a close relationship with his mother (to appease his father, who insisted he pursue a career, got a volunteer position at the Bibliothèque Mazarine). 1908 is an important year for his development as a writer. During the first half of the year published in various magazines imitations of other writers. These exercises have allowed us to consolidate his personal style. “À la recherche du temps perdu” (written between 1909 and 1922), will be his most important work, which ranks among the masterpieces of the literature of all time. In this book, it is enclosed his whole evolution thought. The cultural background of the writer is also made up of the French poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, Verlaine and Mallarme).

The three thousand pages of the novel, were summarized in three words: “Marcel becomes a writer.” Although the issues raised by homosexuality (male and female of some characters), it is represented in the novel, considered by the Guinness Book of Records the longest book in the world. In Search of Lost Time https://www.amazon.com/Search-Lost-Time-Proust-Complete/dp/0812969642 a novel divided (for editorial reasons), in seven volumes. After these failures, in February 1913, Proust turned to the young publisher Bernard Grasset offering to pay the costs of publishing and advertising, while the publisher would have been entitled a share of the gains. The plot takes place in a fictional time ranging from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. Memory, offers the chance to relive past moments, we associate certain feelings.