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A Significant Source For The Madeleine And Other Major Episodes In Combray: Proust's Intertextual Use Of Pierre Loti's My Brother Yves, Richard M. Berrong

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The most famous passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and one of the most famous passages in Western literature, is the moment when the narrator sips tea while eating a shell-shaped pastry called a madeleine and suddenly recalls very vividly an apparently long-forgotten scene from his childhood. From this episode Proust developed his theories about involuntary memory and its important role in our emotional welfare.

Proust was an avid reader of the French novelist Pierre Loti when he was young. Contemporary accounts show that he was able to recite whole passages from Loti’s work in public …

Jeffrey Johnson. Creative Development In Marcel Proust’S A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. Xv + 230 Pp., Claudine Fisher

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Jeffrey Johnson. Creative Development in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. xv + 230 pp.