Russell’s Reviews > In Search of Lost Time > Status Update

A book of characters without a plot or story. Jealousy, memory, desire. My summary: love is suffering and love vanishes upon possession of the beloved. To maintain a belief in love we have to be unable to capture or possess the object of our love.

Marcel, and his mother and grandmother are the only rational characters in the novel. Everyone else is an imposter or false or hypocritical.

Though Marcel is insecure.