num_pages: 3200
description: Generally agreed to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century – and possibly any other – Proust’s masterpiece is here presented in the latest revision to the classic Scott Moncrieff translation. On the surface a traditional Bildungsroman describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others – Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time.
language: English
title: In Search of Lost Time
titlecomplete: In Search of Lost Time
genres: Fiction, France, Philosophy, French Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 12174
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Everyman's Library