Marcel Proust was a French writer of the twentieth century. His longest novel in the world
Search for lost time
Which contains about 1.2 million words twice the content of the novel War and Peace
The book was published in France in seven volumes over fourteen years
They were immediately considered “wonderful” as were the great novels of that century
Or simply over the centuries
Which characterizes it not only as a novel with a high-pitched style of sensation
But it is a work of a genius level in describing people and places
With the whole philosophy of life, the key to the puzzle lies in the title
Search for lost time. The book tells us the story of a man
A convincing version of Brest himself, in his constant search for the meaning and reason of life
It tells us to stop wasting time
And begin to appreciate life
Marcel Proust wants his book to help us first of all
His father, Adrian Prost was one of the great doctors of his time
He was responsible for cholera in France
Nearing the end of his life, his weakness, made his son Marcel immortalized on the inheritance of his father
He was disappointed that his family had not taken a regular job
A servant told his house “Silet”
“If I could do good to humanity through my books
As my father did with his work in medicine
The good news is that he has done so well
Proust’s novel, planned the systematic exploration of the narrator on three possible meanings of life
The first possibility is social success
Born and raised in a bourgeois environment
But during his youth, he began to think about the meaning of life
It is possible to be in high society, which means in the era of the world of aristocrats, dukes and princes
But if all this is turned to the present time, that means the celebrity community
For years, the narrator devoted his energies to ascend the ladder of social classes
Because he is handsome and knowledgeable, he has finally made friends with important figures in the upscale Parisian community
Duke and Duchess
But after a while he managed to understand something
These people are not the extraordinary models he imagined
The duke’s talk is dull and rude
The Duchess, though well-made, is cruel and infallible
Marcel tired them and their surroundings
I realize that virtues and vices are pervasive in all persons regardless of income or fame
He grew up free, dedicating himself to living in a wider environment
Nevertheless, Proust has written many pages in which he makes fun of the arrogant society
It is in the spirit of understanding and empathy
It’s a great mistake, especially when a person is young
On the suspicion that there may be a class of people who are superior in what is possible in the world
And that our lives may be essentially boring
Because we do not have the right connections
But Proust’s story assures us decisively. Life is not elsewhere
There is no party with the ideal people
The second thing that Proust is looking for in his search for the meaning of life
Is love
In the second volume of the novel
The narrator takes his grandmother on the beach
To the Cabourg Sponsors Resort (Barbados at the time)
There he showed impressive admiration in a beautiful girl called “Albertin”
She has a short hair, a childish and charming smile, and has a spontaneous way of speaking
In about 300 pages, everything the narrator thinks about is about Bertin
The meaning of life certainly must be in her love
But over time, here too, they get frustrated
The moment came when the narrator was able to kiss the Bertin
Man, creature is less primal than the sea urchin or even the whale
However, it lacks a certain number of basic devices
And do not have anything that would serve kissing
For this absent member, he replaced his lips
And it may have achieved a more satisfactory outcome
That he loves his beloved with physical motives
The absolute promise of love, in the eyes of Prost
Is that we stop being alone and share our lives properly with the other side
Who will understand every part of us
But the narrator reaches a black end
No one can fully understand the other person
Unit is a chronic disease
We are gerbones, single immigrants trying to accept each other in the dark
This leads us to the third solution and the only successful candidate in the meaning of life
“Art”
At Proust, the great artists deserve cheering
Because they offer us things in a pure, praiseworthy and vivid way
The antithesis of art for Oberst is the custom
For Proust, a great deal of life has been ruined for us by blanket or shroud of intimacy
Which descends between us and everything important
The habit shaded our senses and stopped us from appreciating everything
From the beauty of the occult to our work and our friends
Children do not suffer from habit
For this reason, we see them enjoying the simplest things
Such as a small pond, jumping on the bed, sand and fresh bread
But we adults are bored of everything
That is why we are always looking for a stronger stimulus such as fame and love
The trick, in Proust’s view
Is to regain the appreciation of a child of puberty
To strip the hijab of the habit and thus
To start appreciating everyday life with a new sense
This is for Prost what a group of people does all the time
Artists
Artists are eccentrics who know how to strip the habit away
And return life to its due glory
For example, when they introduce us water lilies, service stations or buildings with a new light
The goal of Aerost is not necessarily to make art
Or be a person walking around museums all the time
The idea is, look at the world, our world
With the same generous look that the artist sees
Which means taking pleasure in small things
Such as water, sky or light line on a piece of paper
It’s not a coincidence that the favorite Proust artist is “Fremier”
An artist knew how to bring value and beauty to every day
The spirit of Vermeer permeates the pages of his novel
It is also committed to the project of reconciling us with the normal conditions of life
And one of the best pieces of Proust writing
Beauty is described every day like, reading on the train
Driving at night, inhaling fragrant flowers in the spring
And looking to change the sunlight at the sea
Prost is famous for his writing about popular French eaters called “Madeleine”
The reason for this, with its emphasis on art and habit
Early in the novel, Narrator tells us
He was frustrated and sad for a while
When one day he had a cup of tea accompanied by a mamadini
Suddenly, the bait took him away
(The same way that some flavors sometimes do)
To years in his youth when he was a young boy
He spent his summer at his uncle’s house in a French countryside
A stream of memories returned to her time, filled with hope and gratitude
Thanks to the “Madeleine”
Rogue Proust has what has since become known as
“Prostate moment”
A moment of involuntary surprise and intense remembrance
When the past suddenly emerges without recall, from smell, taste or texture
Through its rich induction force
What we have learned from this moment of prostatic life is not necessarily trivial or without pleasure
It’s just that the person forgets to be seen with the right angle
We forget what it means to be alive
In fact the feeling of being completely alive
That moment with a cup of tea is a pivotal moment in the novel
Because it explains everything that Brost wanted to say
About life appreciation with a strong emphasis on this sense
It helps the narrator to realize that it is not life that was normal
As far as the picture he has taken, this is the voluntary memory
Proust writes
The reason why life can be judged as trivial
In spite of that, at certain moments looks very beautiful to us
It is because we form our judgment usually not on the evidence of life itself
But on its very different forms
Which does not maintain anything of life
So we judge them lightly
That’s why artists are so important
Their works like a long prostatic moment
They remind us that life is really beautiful, amazing and complex
And thus waste our boredom and hardness
Proust’s philosophy of art is quoted in his book
Which in itself is an example of what he says
It is a work of art that brings beauty and care of the world to life glorious
Just read it, your senses will wake up
Thousands of things, which you’ve naturally forgotten, will come back to your attention
It makes you for some time, as smart and sensitive as it was
For this reason alone, we must make sure to read his work
And the 1.2 million words he collected for us
Thus, learning to appreciate the “presence” before it is too late
Search for lost time
Which contains about 1.2 million words twice the content of the novel War and Peace
The book was published in France in seven volumes over fourteen years
They were immediately considered “wonderful” as were the great novels of that century
Or simply over the centuries
Which characterizes it not only as a novel with a high-pitched style of sensation
But it is a work of a genius level in describing people and places
With the whole philosophy of life, the key to the puzzle lies in the title
Search for lost time. The book tells us the story of a man
A convincing version of Brest himself, in his constant search for the meaning and reason of life
It tells us to stop wasting time
And begin to appreciate life
Marcel Proust wants his book to help us first of all
His father, Adrian Prost was one of the great doctors of his time
He was responsible for cholera in France
Nearing the end of his life, his weakness, made his son Marcel immortalized on the inheritance of his father
He was disappointed that his family had not taken a regular job
A servant told his house “Silet”
“If I could do good to humanity through my books
As my father did with his work in medicine
The good news is that he has done so well
Proust’s novel, planned the systematic exploration of the narrator on three possible meanings of life
The first possibility is social success
Born and raised in a bourgeois environment
But during his youth, he began to think about the meaning of life
It is possible to be in high society, which means in the era of the world of aristocrats, dukes and princes
But if all this is turned to the present time, that means the celebrity community
For years, the narrator devoted his energies to ascend the ladder of social classes
Because he is handsome and knowledgeable, he has finally made friends with important figures in the upscale Parisian community
Duke and Duchess
But after a while he managed to understand something
These people are not the extraordinary models he imagined
The duke’s talk is dull and rude
The Duchess, though well-made, is cruel and infallible
Marcel tired them and their surroundings
I realize that virtues and vices are pervasive in all persons regardless of income or fame
He grew up free, dedicating himself to living in a wider environment
Nevertheless, Proust has written many pages in which he makes fun of the arrogant society
It is in the spirit of understanding and empathy
It’s a great mistake, especially when a person is young
On the suspicion that there may be a class of people who are superior in what is possible in the world
And that our lives may be essentially boring
Because we do not have the right connections
But Proust’s story assures us decisively. Life is not elsewhere
There is no party with the ideal people
The second thing that Proust is looking for in his search for the meaning of life
Is love
In the second volume of the novel
The narrator takes his grandmother on the beach
To the Cabourg Sponsors Resort (Barbados at the time)
There he showed impressive admiration in a beautiful girl called “Albertin”
She has a short hair, a childish and charming smile, and has a spontaneous way of speaking
In about 300 pages, everything the narrator thinks about is about Bertin
The meaning of life certainly must be in her love
But over time, here too, they get frustrated
The moment came when the narrator was able to kiss the Bertin
Man, creature is less primal than the sea urchin or even the whale
However, it lacks a certain number of basic devices
And do not have anything that would serve kissing
For this absent member, he replaced his lips
And it may have achieved a more satisfactory outcome
That he loves his beloved with physical motives
The absolute promise of love, in the eyes of Prost
Is that we stop being alone and share our lives properly with the other side
Who will understand every part of us
But the narrator reaches a black end
No one can fully understand the other person
Unit is a chronic disease
We are gerbones, single immigrants trying to accept each other in the dark
This leads us to the third solution and the only successful candidate in the meaning of life
“Art”
At Proust, the great artists deserve cheering
Because they offer us things in a pure, praiseworthy and vivid way
The antithesis of art for Oberst is the custom
For Proust, a great deal of life has been ruined for us by blanket or shroud of intimacy
Which descends between us and everything important
The habit shaded our senses and stopped us from appreciating everything
From the beauty of the occult to our work and our friends
Children do not suffer from habit
For this reason, we see them enjoying the simplest things
Such as a small pond, jumping on the bed, sand and fresh bread
But we adults are bored of everything
That is why we are always looking for a stronger stimulus such as fame and love
The trick, in Proust’s view
Is to regain the appreciation of a child of puberty
To strip the hijab of the habit and thus
To start appreciating everyday life with a new sense
This is for Prost what a group of people does all the time
Artists
Artists are eccentrics who know how to strip the habit away
And return life to its due glory
For example, when they introduce us water lilies, service stations or buildings with a new light
The goal of Aerost is not necessarily to make art
Or be a person walking around museums all the time
The idea is, look at the world, our world
With the same generous look that the artist sees
Which means taking pleasure in small things
Such as water, sky or light line on a piece of paper
It’s not a coincidence that the favorite Proust artist is “Fremier”
An artist knew how to bring value and beauty to every day
The spirit of Vermeer permeates the pages of his novel
It is also committed to the project of reconciling us with the normal conditions of life
And one of the best pieces of Proust writing
Beauty is described every day like, reading on the train
Driving at night, inhaling fragrant flowers in the spring
And looking to change the sunlight at the sea
Prost is famous for his writing about popular French eaters called “Madeleine”
The reason for this, with its emphasis on art and habit
Early in the novel, Narrator tells us
He was frustrated and sad for a while
When one day he had a cup of tea accompanied by a mamadini
Suddenly, the bait took him away
(The same way that some flavors sometimes do)
To years in his youth when he was a young boy
He spent his summer at his uncle’s house in a French countryside
A stream of memories returned to her time, filled with hope and gratitude
Thanks to the “Madeleine”
Rogue Proust has what has since become known as
“Prostate moment”
A moment of involuntary surprise and intense remembrance
When the past suddenly emerges without recall, from smell, taste or texture
Through its rich induction force
What we have learned from this moment of prostatic life is not necessarily trivial or without pleasure
It’s just that the person forgets to be seen with the right angle
We forget what it means to be alive
In fact the feeling of being completely alive
That moment with a cup of tea is a pivotal moment in the novel
Because it explains everything that Brost wanted to say
About life appreciation with a strong emphasis on this sense
It helps the narrator to realize that it is not life that was normal
As far as the picture he has taken, this is the voluntary memory
Proust writes
The reason why life can be judged as trivial
In spite of that, at certain moments looks very beautiful to us
It is because we form our judgment usually not on the evidence of life itself
But on its very different forms
Which does not maintain anything of life
So we judge them lightly
That’s why artists are so important
Their works like a long prostatic moment
They remind us that life is really beautiful, amazing and complex
And thus waste our boredom and hardness
Proust’s philosophy of art is quoted in his book
Which in itself is an example of what he says
It is a work of art that brings beauty and care of the world to life glorious
Just read it, your senses will wake up
Thousands of things, which you’ve naturally forgotten, will come back to your attention
It makes you for some time, as smart and sensitive as it was
For this reason alone, we must make sure to read his work
And the 1.2 million words he collected for us
Thus, learning to appreciate the “presence” before it is too late
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