Chasing the Lost Time (illustrated Volume 5): Female Prisoners
by J
About This Novel
"The Prisoner" is the fifth volume of "In Search of Lost Time". It was published in 1923, the second year after Proust's death. It has a special status in the whole book. The protagonist imprisons his girlfriend Albertina in his home until he wakes up one day and finds that she has escaped. The story is based on a major emotional twists and turns in the author's life. Although Albertine has already appeared in the second volume, "In the Shadow of the Girl's Flowers", it is in this volume that she comes to life and stands out, becoming the central character throughout the fifth volume "The Female Prisoner" and the sixth volume "The Missing Albertine", and even continues to the last volume "The Time Found". "Chasing the Lost Time" is composed of seven interconnected and independent novels. The stories are not coherent, and various reflections, discussions, flashbacks, etc. Are often inserted in the middle. It has a unique style that changes people's traditional concepts of novels and innovates the themes and writing techniques of novels.
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