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What are some important works of Marcel Proust (novelist)?

15.06.2025 00:22

What are some important works of Marcel Proust (novelist)?

Proust's earlier works include a collection of short stories and poems, “Les Plaisirs et les jours”, and a novel “Jean Santeuil” but he is remembered for his masterpiece “À la recherche du temps perdu", written between 1913 and 1927, in which he seeks to trace the workings of the human mind with particular emphasis on the process of memory. He holds that reality can be redeemed only through art and suggests that only involuntary memory, such as the one induced by the petite madeleine, can recreate a past experience in its totality.

C'est parce que je croyais aux choses, aux êtres, tandis que je les parcourais, que les choses, les êtres qu'ils m'ont fait connaître sont les seuls que je prenne encore au sérieux, et qui me donnent encore de la joie. Soit que la foi qui crée soit tarie en moi, soit que la réalité ne se forme que dans la mémoire, les fleurs qu'on me montre aujourd'hui pour la première fois ne me semblent pas de vraies fleurs.

I take exception to the English title “Remembrance of Things Past" which lacks the sense of a quest inherent in “À la recherche du temps perdu".

Hello,hope y'all doin good, i came to Quora to share my strange story , a very weird one , a story when luck smiled at me ,maybe u will enjoy it , let's begin,have fun... A year ago ,I was a real porn addicted(btw I was 18) ,but never had sex before, I don't have a gf I didn't try to find one even ,always thinking to go to find a sex worker but then I just don't , everyday watching different bodies getting fucked and everyday enjoying. One day, I was watching porn, a big ass lady with big boobs ,just after seeing her the image of my female cousin poped in my mind, (let's introduce her : she's 35 years old , very big ass , nice boobs ,not very big but nice,always wearing tight clothes , she's divorced ) and I thought of me fucking her ,I never had sexual desires for her but now I do days went by and when I met her I was so horny ,I couldn't stay with the family cz my penis was clearly erected , I realized this is my first time I get horny for one of my family ,it not illegal in my country.well to make a long story short( if u want details just text me I will tell u 😊),I decided to give her signs that I want to fuck her,finally I decided to have sex and with my cousin , I thought it is the best beggining for me, i started touching her when I came across her in a narrow place , make her feel my hard cock when we hug , I thought it will hard and I will be ashamed but no , I felt nothing and she said nothing , probably she thought it was by mistake,anyways, I decided then to talk with her about sex, waited for her to be alone in a room and talk with her, I confessed everything about me watching porn and addicted..etc,she said it's normal and u are growing up and u must have sex,well at that time I was like whaaat????? Well I didn't control myself and asked her for sex ( horny like I Ve never been before) she said that she will think Abt it ,2 weeka went by then she called me ,telling that she reserved a room in a hotel and we meet tonight ,we met,and bruuhh, sex is great , I mean, I had to find a pirstitue ,what I was waiting for to have such a feeling ????, I will never forget that night, I started kissing her she was kissing hard ,she misses sex so bad , she sucked my dick and swallowed my semen ,I felt I'm in a dream , then when fucked ,her ass was very big and the anus was open ,didn't struggle to get my hard cock inside it , she was obviously missing sex , she was shouting ,fuck me yh fuck me , I go fast after every word until I cum , we did that 3 times , then we went to her pussy , using condoms I fucked her so hard the moans were higher , everything was perfect ,in the end I asked her to lick her body , licked pussy ,ass, boobs,then she sucked my cock until we sleeped ,all I know that she was dirty ,well before even having sex with her I knew she is an open minded woman , and a woman that looks that she donesnt know anything , but she knows everything, but never expected having sex with her ,well she was horny and that helped...but no one of us regretted that sex ever.. We still have sex from time to time ,and I started having sex with sex workers , joining threesomes..etc If u want pics of her text me.

Coming home one evening tired and depressed, he dips a cake — a petite madeleine — iinto a cup of tea. As he tastes it, a feeling of joy comes over him and a sense of liberation from anxiety, doubts and misgivings. As if by magic, the Combray of his childhood arises from the depths of his memory, restored by the taste of the little cake which is linked to his childhood. He meditates on that childhood world:

(It's because I believed in things, in entities, while I experienced them, that only those things and entities thus known are viewed seriously and afford me joy. Whether it be that the faith which creates has dried up in me or that reality is formed only in memory, the flowers that I am shown today for the first time don't seem real flowers to me.)