Marcel Proust - A la recherche du temps perdu - 1973

In search of lost time by Marcel Proust. The complete set in 3 volumes, in a protective plastic cover by Gallimard/La Pléiade, in very good condition. The Bible paper is like new.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French writer, whose main work is the novel series In Search of Lost Time, published between 1913 and 1927.
It was in 1907 that Marcel Proust began writing his great work In Search of Lost Time, the seven volumes of which were published between 1913 (Swann's Way) and 1927. The second volume, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, won the Prix Goncourt in 1919.
Marcel Proust died exhausted in 1922 from poorly treated bronchitis: he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, accompanied by a large audience who saluted an important writer whom later generations placed at the highest level, making him a literary myth.

Marcel Proust's novels are a major reflection on time and emotional memory, as well as on the functions of art, which must offer its own worlds. They are also reflections on love and jealousy, with a sense of failure and the emptiness of existence that casts a gray tint on the Proustian vision, in which homosexuality plays an important role. La Recherche also constitutes a vast human comedy of more than two hundred characters. Proust recreates revealing places, whether the childhood settings of Aunt Léonie's house in Combray or the Parisian salons that contrast aristocratic and bourgeois circles, these worlds being evoked with a sometimes acidic pen by a narrator who is both captivated and ironic. This social theatre is animated by very diverse characters whose comic traits Proust does not hide: these figures are often inspired by real people, which makes In Search of Lost Time partly a roman à clef and a picture of an era. Proust's mark is also in his style of often very long sentences, which follow the spiral of creation in the making, seeking to reach a totality of reality that always eludes.
The first volume, Swann's Way (1913), was rejected by Gallimard on the advice of André Gide, despite the efforts of Prince Antoine Bibesco and the writer Louis de Robert. Gide later expressed his regrets. Finally, the book was self-published by Grasset, and Proust paid critics to speak highly of it.

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