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《타임스》, 《르 몽드》 선정 20세기 최고의 책
프루스트 이후 모든 소설의 출발점
3편, 「게르망트 쪽」 출간

“20세기 소설의 혁명”, “소설이 도달할 수 있는 극한”이라고 일컬어지는 걸작.
기존 소설의 틀을 벗어던지고, 의식의 흐름을 좇는 독특한 서술 방식을 통해
집요할 정도로 정밀하게 인간 내면과 시대상을 담아낸 기념비적인 작품.
현대 문학의 새로운 길을 개척한 20세기 최고, 최대의 소설.

524 pages, Hardcover

Published December 18, 2015

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Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.

Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51.

Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.

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