autobiographical novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.
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For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands,
Excerpt from "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust. I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object, and so effectively lost to us until the day (which to many never comes).
Swann's Way. Remembrance of Things Past Series. Book 1. Marcel Proust Author C. K. Scott Montcrieff Translator (2012). cover image of Letters to the Lady Upstairs
TIME REGAINED is a translation of "Le Temps. Retrouve" the eighth part of Marcel Proust's continuous novel "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" (Remembrance of Things Past). The titles of the parts are: Du Cote de Chez Swann (1913) l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. (awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919) (1918).
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