![]() ![]() It’s like a lyrical moment in a narrative poem. When he does this, time slows for the narration. Proust on occasion will write about a detail, such as the inside of a church or person’s appearance or personality, for five to ten pages. Sometimes we experience time moving fast and sometimes slow. Much of this book is also about experiencing time. He is digging deep into himself to re-experience past events in vivid detail, details that often last 5, 10, or even 133 pages. In Search of Lost Time, as many critics have acknowledged, is based on Marcel Proust’s life, and Proust is not time travelling to see a something or someone again. ![]() ![]() I think they do, but they are usually implicit, but in this long novel, I believe Proust explicitly tells us the thesis of In Search of Lost Time: “There is no need to travel to be able to see it again we need to go deep into ourselves to find it” (85). Sometimes I wonder if a novel, short story, or poem has a thesis. I am about 20 pages from finishing The Guermantes Way, book three of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. ![]()
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