Dormant: in Search of Lost Time:Le Cote De Guermantes and Sodome Et Gomorrhe
Marcel Proust
512 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 071399178X
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Language: English
Publish: None
20th CenturyClassicsFictionFranceFrench LiteratureLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsPhilosophyWriting
Before his death in 1922, Marcel Proust accomplished the monumental feat of recording Remembrance of Things Past, a fifteen-volume literary history, much of which was based upon his own adventures and minute observations. The Guermantes Way is an installation in this collection and recounts, among other things, his childhood in Combray and the relevance of grasping the importance of particular events and people from his past in his development as a writer. Although autobiographical, Proust employs suspense and the observation of minutiae to illustrate our own subjective existence.