Creative Development in Marcel Proust’s «A la recherche du temps perdu»

This book focuses on creative development and empowerment in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu . It demonstrates Proust’s proof of the Romantic notion that art originates in the self of the artist. Approached as a Bildungsroman , the psychological aspects of this development in Marcel, the principal character, are considered in terms of the stimulus/response mechanism in living organisms. It verifies Proust’s argument that time in the body, including all that one experiences unconsci