Remembrance of Things Past
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I decided to reverse-engineer Proust's madeleine, using hints the author gives in Remembrance of Things Past, in an effort to find out.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2013
Time Regained, an elegant and endearing adaptation of the final volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, came out in 1999.
From Time ● Aug. 22, 2011
He joined the National in 2000 for Romeo and Juliet, directed by Tim Supple, and appeared in Remembrance of Things Past, co-adapted by Harold Pinter, with whom John enjoyed a friendship.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2011
Eco viewed the project as the inverse of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," in which memory propels the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2005
As I wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, "Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; we obey pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
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