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Marcel Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time, here gathered complete, charts a narrator's apprenticeship in desire, art, and society from provincial Combray to Paris salons and Balbec's shore. A signature of modernism, it turns involuntary memory—a madeleine, a paving stone—into revelation. With sinuous sentences, recursive motifs, and free indirect interiority, Proust fuses social satire to metaphysical inquiry, modeling time's distortions and recoveries across the cycle's grand design. Situated alongside Joyce and Woolf, its psychology is inflected by Bergsonian durée. Proust, a chronically ill and hypersensitive observer, wrote much of the work in a cork-lined bedroom, turning seclusion into method. His immersion in Parisian salons, the moral shock of the Dreyfus Affair, filial devotion, and translations of Ruskin equipped him to merge acute social observation with an ethics of attention, and to treat art as the sole redemption of passing time. This complete seven-book collection is indispensable for readers of modern classics: scholars will relish its audacity, writers its lessons in style, and thoughtful newcomers its humane intelligence. Read patiently; the reward is a renewed sense of memory's power to shape, and finally redeem, experience.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.