Another title of the book is: Remembrance of Things Past
About the book:
In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world.
The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.
For the record the book is 4000 pages! yup it is lengthy ~ I even was not able to finish it because of the length of the book. But, if you manage to go through all of the pages of the book you will see what the author was trying to tell us and what the author wanted to do.
He wanted to tell us how the experiences of our past slip away from our memory and, as such, no longer have any obvious impact on us. In some cases, (i.e. sexual jealousy and grief), this is a good thing, lest the pain of these losses would forever burden us.
