The Past Recaptured - Marcel Proust - 1958 Modern Library edition

In this luminous volume, Marcel Proust transforms memory into living art. The Past Recaptured is both a culmination and revelation—the extraordinary moment when time dissolves and consciousness becomes pure understanding. Here, the narrator discovers how artistic perception transcends temporal boundaries, revealing the profound interconnections between experience, memory, and creation. Proust's breathtaking prose explores how lived moments are transmuted into aesthetic experience, showing how the deepest truths of human existence emerge not through direct observation, but through involuntary memory and artistic reflection. A symphonic meditation on time, art, and human consciousness, this work represents the apotheosis of modernist literature—a novel that is simultaneously a philosophical investigation, a psychological portrait, and a supreme act of literary imagination. - The Past Recaptured -Marcel Proust. Frederick A. Blossom, trans. Published 1959, Modern Library / Random House Inc. New York. Hardcover. Approx. 5x7in. 404pp. Front hinge is cracked (see photo), boards show some wear. But still a pretty little volume for your bookshelf!