Time Regained by Marcel Proust (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Time Regained by Marcel Proust. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including the passage of time, the nature of memory and the writer’s vocation. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Marcel Proust
• Presentation of Time Regained
• Summary of Time Regained
• Character study
  • The narrator
  • Gilberte de Saint-Loup
  • Robert de Saint-Loup
  • The Baron de Charlus
  • The Guermantes
  • Odette
• Analysis of Time Regained
  • The genesis of a work
  • Proust’s vision of literature
  • The “world” of Time Regained

About Time Regained

Time Regained is the seventh and final volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, and follows the narrator as he reaches the threshold of old age and sees how the people around him, as well as society itself, have changed with the passage of time. It is also in this volume that he discovers his literary vocation, discusses the nature of true literature and the role of the artist at length, and grasps the power of involuntary memory to evoke experiences that were buried deep within us, bringing the famous madeleine episode from Swann’s Way full circle.

About Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a French novelist, essayist and critic, and is widely considered to be one of the key writers of the 20^th century. His most famous work is In Search of Lost Time, which was published in several instalments between the years of 1913 and 1927. He was raised a Catholic, but later proclaimed himself to be an athiest. He died in 1922 at the age of 51, following years of declining health.