Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Lu Hengji, Xu Jizeng, and others
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Marcel Proust was a great French writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In French and even world literary history, he holds an equally important position as Balzac. Since 1987, several influential French publishing houses have been competing to reissue Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. This book, in its unique artistic form, expresses new concepts and techniques in literary creation. The novel uses the method of reminiscence, (with the help of subconsciousness that transcends time and space), to intermittently revisit the past and convey an endless longing and indelible melancholy for friends and past events. This writing style not only broke the traditional conventions of novel writing at the time but also had a profound impact on the emergence of various new novel movements in the years that followed.