Literature in Theory and in Practice

Abstract

When you finish reading the last volume of A la recherche du temps perdu and follow the implicit invitation to turn back to the first page in order to start reading it all again, there should be no doubt in your mind about what Proust intends you to expect. The long passage in Le Temps retrouvé in which the Narrator describes the final discovery of his vocation contains a detailed account of what he intends to put into his book, and of the qualities which he hopes the reader will find there.