The novel mentions more than a hundred artists, who traverse the history of art from the Trecento to the 20th century, from primitivism to futurism, from Giotto to Léon Bakst.

The volume The Paintings in Proust's Work was born out of a curiosity regarding the paintings that the reader's visual memory could not easily recall.

The paintings that Proust chooses to animate and expand the invented world of In Search of Lost Time function denotatively - as descriptive analogies, as metaphors and symbols - reminding the narrator's grandmother and her desire to bring her grandson in touch with the "overlapping layers of art."

In your hands, you have a companion guide to the works that the reader encounters along the course of the novel, which was created to illuminate its spiral corridors.

[Excerpt from the text of the introduction of the edition]