"Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 4)" Author: [France] Marcel Proust Publisher: Yilin Press

Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" reviews past events in the form of memories, including childhood memories, family life, first love and broken love, observations of historical events, insights into art, and understanding of time and space. Time is the protagonist of this novel. With wisdom and imagination, the author makes time concrete, vivid, and perfect. It is like a symphony composed of multiple themes, love, jealousy, death, memories, and time, sometimes overlapping and sometimes drifting apart, but in the macro sense, the whole work is integrated and has a vigorous vitality. "In Search of Lost Time" is recognized as a new attempt in literary creation and a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness novels.

Sodom and Gomorrah is relatively independent in the whole novel. The current Sodom and Gomorrah (II) is linked to the social world series on the one hand and the love series on the other. To be precise, the turning point of Remembrance of Things Past is Sodom and Gomorrah (I). The discovery of Charlus's sexual perversion and his discussion of homosexuality clearly announced the end of the Guermantes series and the development of the novel in a new direction. Before this, Swann was the protagonist's alter ego in the social world and in love, and after this, this role was played by Charlus. This volume is the most romantic, so imagination plays the greatest role in it. It is the volume with the strongest Balzac color in Proust's works.