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à la recherche du temps perdu

Here will reside some quotes and thoughts on Marcel Proust's work 'In Search of Lost Time'. I'm only on the second volume, 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower', so it's an ongoing project. For now check out the reading page.

I recently found an interesting chronological overview of the novel, with the Moncrieff titles:

Swann's Way

  • Overture: after 1925
  • "Combray I": 1883-1892
  • Episode of the madeleine: 1904
  • "Combray II": 1883-1892
  • "Swann in Love": 1877-78
  • [Births of the Narrator and Gilberte: 1878]
  • "Place-Names: The Name": 1892-1895
  • Bois de Boulogne episode: 1903

    Within A Budding Grove

  • "Madame Swann at Home": 1892-1895
  • "Place-Names: The Place": 1897

    The Guermantes Way

  • 1897-1899

    Sodom and Gomorrah

  • 1899-1900

    The Captive & The Fugitive:

  • 1900-1902

    Time Regained

  • Tansonville: 1903
  • The War: 1914, 1916
  • Matinée Guermantes: 1925