We today better understand the processes behind the birth of this lifelong work, this vast river of words that shook 20th-century literature, in France and around the world.
The reader comes into contact here with an epic of thought, a journey through the labyrinths of the cosmic, artistic, and intellectual realm of Proust's time, along with an admirable psychological study, all in the service of an unparalleled language.
We also know the circumstances of Marcel Proust's death, the recording of the word 'end' and the dictation of the final phrases, the exhaustion of the author from this search and discovery of lost time.
We perhaps know less about the circumstances that led to the emergence of the Greek translation of the work: we are faced here with the difficulties, the acumen, and the strength of a man, through which 'In Search of Lost Time' was born and is now offered to readers.
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
