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A Study Of The Symbol Of The Cross In Marcel Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Eugene Freedman

Master's Theses

Á la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust, is the story of a young, naive boy named Marcel who grew up to be a writer . In this paper, when the author of the novel is referred to, the name Proust will be employed, while the main character of the novel will be referred to as Marcel. For Marcel, the narrator of the work, the composition of a novel was his only hope for immortality and salvation from the passage of time, since time destroys. In his quest for immortality, it was his task to understand the ever-changing …