Marcel Prousts Time Regained (1999)

Marcel Prousts Time Regained 1999 Marcel Proust 1871 1922 is on his deathbed Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcels lover Albertine, and with others present also in memory are Marcels beloved mother and grandmother It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art The memories parallel the final volume of Prousts novel