A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Tome I
Creator
Date
1954
Identifier
Private Collection
Publisher
[Paris]: Gallimard
Abstract
Marcel Proust’s moments are often instances of involuntary memory, triggered by a sensory experience. In In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past), the best-known example is a memory prompted by the taste of a madeleine (a small cake). In volume one, Swann’s Way, displayed here, the narrator believes that he has only one memory of his childhood visits to Combray, until, years later, a madeleine dipped in tea touches his palate: a shudder runs through him, an exquisite pleasure invades his senses, and suddenly a memory reveals itself. He remembers the taste of the madeleine his aunt Léonie gave him on Sunday mornings at Combray.
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Citation
Marcel Proust, “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. Tome I,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 23, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/8499.