The Best Book of All Times... A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's - In Search of Lost Time

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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

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Swann's Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous madeleine; and describes M. Swann's passion for Odette. The work is incomparable. Edmund Wilson said "[Proust] has supplied for the first time in literature an equivalent in the full scale for the new theory of modern physics."

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.

Famous Quotes: 

* If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

* The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

* Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

* We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

* A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

* Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.

* We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

* A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

My favorite:

* To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 1st on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)
  2. - 1st on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
  3. - 1st on The 25 Favorite Books of 100 Francophone Writers (Telerama)
  4. - 1st on Robert McCrum's top 10 books of the twentieth century (The Guardian)
  5. - 2nd on The Greatest 20th Century Novels (Waterstone)
  6. - 2nd on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (Le Monde)
  7. - 2nd on For The Love of Books (For The Love of Books)
  8. - 3rd on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
  9. - 3rd on Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale (Raymond Queneau)
  10. - 4th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
  11. - 4th on Greatest Prose Works of the 20th Century (Vladimir Nabokov)
  12. - 5th on Biblioteca (Argentina)
  13. - 6th on The Ideal Library (Book)
  14. - 6th on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
  15. - 6th on The 16 Greatest Books of All Time (NYU Local)
  16. - 6th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
  17. - 7th on The 100 Best Books of World Literature (ABC.es)
  18. - 8th on The Celebrity Reading List (Gardiner Public Library)
  19. - 9th on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
  20. - 33rd on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
  21. - 34th on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
  22. - 41st on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
  23. - 80th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
  24. - From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books (Jeff O'Neal at Bookriot.com)
  25. - "Our Readable Century", The Best Books of the 20th Century (January Magazine)
  26. - How to Read and Why (Harold Bloom)
  27. - Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith and Editors)
  28. - Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)
  29. - 100 Life-Changing Books (National Book Award)
  30. - The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan)
  31. - Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) (Tidningen Boken)
  32. - ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher (Die Zeit)
  33. - The College Board: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers (http://www.uhlibrary.net/pdf/college_board_recommended_books.pdf)
  34. - 100 Most Influential Books of the Century (Boston Public Library)
  35. - Great Books of the Western World (Great Books Foundation)
  36. - 50 Greatest Books of All Time (Globe and Mail)
  37. - The Bigger Read List (English PEN)
  38. - Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
  39. - 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (The Telegraph)
  40. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
  41. - The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)

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