Time Regained
Marcel Proust, A. Mayor
Hardcover
(Chatto and Windus, Oct. 15, 1970)
1970 Chatto Windus hardcover, Marcel Proust (The Guermantes Way). The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material for literature--his past life.