VI: Time Regained, the narrator discovers the crucial dimension of Time. So, here’s what’s on my plate at this buffet. Imagine you’re standing by a smorgasbord of a huge array of culinary offerings, yes including those that are hard to digest or don’t agree with your system, and you can only eat so much, of course you would pick and choose your favourite foods. Some of the subjects in the 44 pages of Index to Themes include beauty, brothels, dreams, literature, language, music, painting, politics, the Dreyfus Affair, anti-semitism, war, love, sexuality, old age, death… just to name a few. Instead of summarizing––an impossible task for me––I’ll pick out those passages or ideas that have stirred up some ripples within me filtered through the lens of a movie reviewer, hopefully offering something that’s different and easy to chew.Īt the end of Volume VI there are over 200 pages listing characters, places, and themes. There are many websites and scholastic discussions on this 4,300 page autobiographical novel. For me, a hobby Proust reader, not until I come to the last volume Time Regained do I realize the significance of the first three volumes and why Proust writes in such minute details about the narrator’s childhood and youthful experiences. V The Captive and The Fugitive (originally in two volumes), and Vol. So glad I finally finish the last three volumes this year in nine months, just in time for the centenary of Proust’s death in November: Vol.

In search of lost time complete set