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"In Search of Lost Time is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." Harold Bloom"At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the nouveau roman." Bengt Holmqvist"Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" Virginia Woolf"The greatest fiction to date." W. Somerset Maugham"Proust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century." Graham GreeneOn the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrators journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the authors 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 largest: 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."In Search of Lost Time" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.

la recerca del temps perdut ha estat una obra de culte per al lector del segle XX i continua sent-ho per al del segle XXI. Pero, com que el seu volum i la seva densitat espanten qualsevol amant de la literatura, lobra sha convertit en territori derudits i academics. Fins i tot la llargada del cicle novel·listic ha estat objecte duna parodia per part dels comics Monty Pythonen el seu concurs per resumir la Recerca en quinze segons. Tambe el film Miss Little Sunshine (2006) deixa constancia, en un dels seus temes, daquest elitisme de lobra de Proust. No obstant aixo, les editorials no deixen de publicar o reimprimir, any rere any, la Recerca, sencera o per parts, o de recuperar altres obres menors del autor.El volum que presentem ara consisteix en una antologia de fragments de la Recerca extrets dels diversos episodis principals i enllaçats per mitja dun text que fa de fil conductor. Aquests fragments fan referencia principalment a objectes o a moments que desperten en el narrador el record de temps passats, perduts: son les epifanies. De cop i volta, una sensacio no un acte voluntari de la intel·ligencia ens ressuscita un mon periclitat, i el temps que separa el passat i el present queda reduit al no-res.

En busca del tiempo perdido o —de acuerdo con otras traducciones— A la búsqueda del tiempo perdido (À la recherche du temps perdu, en francés) es una novela de Marcel Proust, escrita entre 1908 y 192

En busca del tiempo perdido o —de acuerdo con otras traducciones— A la búsqueda del tiempo perdido (À la recherche du temps perdu, en francés) es una novela de Marcel Proust, escrita entre 1908 y 192

Par l''attribution du prix Goncourt, le grand public va connaître le nom de Marcel Proust (...). Depuis la fondation de l''Académie, en 1903, nous n''avons pas, à mon avis, couronné un ouvrage aussi