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The French author Marcel Proust's multivolume novel In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), written in the early twentieth century. How the novel captures ordinary experiences, such as the limits on knowing another person. Its reflections on becoming a writer, art's capacity to allow us to see through the eyes of others and to see ourselves, and the relation between Proust and his narrator. The theme of reading and interpreting one's beloved, as well as the representation of sexual orientation in both biological and biblical terms.
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