In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), time is a fluid construct, an illusion. The seven-volume novel unravels the musings and recollections of an unnamed narrator for whom even the ...

“People in society,” Marcel Proust writes in “Sodom and Gomorrah,” the fourth volume of “In Search of Lost Time,” “are too apt to think of a book as a sort of cube one side of which has been removed, ...