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Chargement... Time Regained (1927)par Marcel Proust
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Hard to believe I've finally finished this brilliant, though flawed, masterpiece! It's a maddening piece of work, funny, beautiful, engaging, mind-stretching, tedious, repetitious. I felt the need to take some quite long breaks in between volumes, so it took me a number of years to read, but I'm so glad I stuck with it. Given Proust's rich references to art work, I highly recommend getting a copy of [b:Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time'|3753149|Paintings in Proust A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time'|Eric Karpeles|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348882774l/3753149._SY75_.jpg|3797011][b:Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time'|3753149|Paintings in Proust A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time'|Eric Karpeles|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348882774l/3753149._SY75_.jpg|3797011] as a companion value, which is a lovely thing to have in its own right. I had to roll my eyes when I saw Gilberte and Albertine's names as early as page two. Was this going to be another obsessive missive about these women? Had Albertine lived! That is the refrain. Not exactly. Time Regained, as the final installment of Remembrance of Things Past is exactly that - a circling back to remembering people, places, and experiences long since past. It is a mediation on society, aging, relationships, art, beauty, and truth. Proust even goes back to the first moments with his mother detailed in the first volume, Swann's Way. We all grow old and we all learn things along the way. I am not sure what message Proust is trying to make with the aging of his nameless protagonist. He never really learns anything profound except that relationships are precious. Gilberte and Albertine are two women he never should have taken for granted. It seems too short. Like it just scratches the surface. It does make the world seem larger . This last volume is much more depressing than the others mainly because everyone gets old and no one learns anything. i appreciated the philosophical discussions about art. In the end it does give you new eyes to see with but now i want to put on dark glasses and go back into my cave.
K. Scott-Moncrieff died he had translated seven out of the eight books of Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu." The last volume, " Le Temps Rctrouve," has been done by Mr. Stephen Hudson...With these expository passages Mr. Hudson is fairly happy; he goes at them with resolution and wrests from them something at least as intelligible as the French. Where he falls short is in the narrative. Neither the original nor the translation is satisfactory. The stars have conspired against them Le Temps Retrouve was written when Proust was already a dying man and quite unable not only to revise such gross errors as the description of characters by phrases (amounting sometimes to whole paragraphs) which he has used to describe other characters in previous volumes, but even to use his own distinctive stylistic instruments Est contenu dansContientFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansContient un commentaire de texte deContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
Le Temps retrouvé est le septième et dernier tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 1927 à titre posthume.L'oeuvre s'ouvre sur le séjour du Narrateur chez Gilberte de Saint-Loup à Tansonville. Une lecture d'un passage inédit du journal des Goncourt entraîne le Narrateur dans des réflexions sur l'art et la littérature, d'où il conclut que en se demandant si tous les gens que nous regrettons de ne pas avoir connus parce que Balzac les peignait dans ses livres [...] ne m'eussent pas paru d'insignifiantes personnes, soit par une infirmité de ma nature, soit qu'elles ne dussent leur prestige qu'à une magie illusoire de la littérature. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Before all of this, World War One enters the story in this volume. The narrator learns that Combray has become a torn-up battleground. The drawing-room salons have to reduce their grandeur in wartime, and high society takes an awkward line between ignoring and acknowledging the war in their behaviours and discussion. This is a part of the final volume's reflections upon change, upon the divergences that emerge between past and present that can never be reconciled except in memory. There's some measure here of reconciling Saint-Loupe's present and former selves which heals one of my gripes I had, and again ties into the theme. But nothing happens to smooth over the Albertine debacle. In fact the narrator just keeps doing the same horrible thing over and over, baldly stating that his memories of her now stir absolutely no feelings in him, and it made me angrier every time. It's disturbing how little he learned from the experience. When his future love is introduced to him I wanted to yell at her to run, run while she still can.
And now it's done. Hard to believe. "We accept the thought that in ten years we ourselves, in a hundred years our books, will have ceased to exist," he writes. It's now a hundred years later and this is still top of the heap.
I both love ISOLT and have a problem with it. My love stems from Proust's readiness to smell each and every rose along the path, without seeming to have the least concern for where the path is taking him or being in any rush to get there. He has minute observations on everything and anything. If you're reading for plot, it'll drive you mad. If you can remember being a child who found wonder in every cloud and blade of grass, maybe you'll be entranced by this adult who does the equivalent: stops to examine every emotion, every link to memory, every gesture, expression, etc. Nothing passes his notice or lies beneath it that he won't stop and study. The consequence is that again and again he makes observations about everyday things that ring absolutely true and yet I'd never stopped to consider them myself. And on the subject of love, the dominant topic, I've gathered more insights about it from Proust than from anyone else I can name. Some parts have even served as a kind of therapy for various regrets I've harboured, and I feel stronger for having taken this journey with him.
My problem with ISOLT is its narrator. He's an unknown entity for the first half or two thirds, then comes into focus as an overbearingly jealous lover who at the same time is a philanderer - a terrible kind of hypocrite, in other words, who becomes impossible to respect unless he can demonstrate remorse after he learns his lesson. Instead he does no such thing, blaming his victim and carrying on with his ironclad selfishness, discarding his obsessive love after the fact like it was nothing, the same love that almost literally destroyed her. For all of his brilliant observation skills, I can't possibly like this guy.
The only slack I'll give him is the acknowledgement that he is a heterosexual who finds himself surrounded by homosexuality (an inversion of Proust's personal state and thus a way for the author to more safely explore and share the scenario with his readers). He is surprised at every turn by those whose true pleasure is revealed to be their own sex. Under these circumstances, his paranoia is arguably more rational and it could reflect Proust's personal frustrations: "Is that man attracted to me, or am I only mistaking him for a homosexual? Is he my lover by actual inclination, or only experimenting?" That would be difficult, especially in a culture where homosexuality remained largely underground. ISOLT is not on its surface sympathetic to homosexuality, but scratch just beyond that and it's clearly otherwise. ( )