While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, ...

2015. The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature. p. 161. Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French ...

The French say that a madeleine is something that triggers a memory or nostalgia. The famous shell-shaped cookie was immortalised by the great French writer Marcel Proust in his famous novel ‘In ...