Stuart A E
Proc R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2000 May;30(2):172-5.
The French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born at Auteuil, Paris and was a semi-invalid all his life, cosseted by his mother until her death in 1905 when he was 34 years old. His hitherto 'social butterfly' existence was transformed. He withdrew himself from society and lived in a sound-proof flat giving himself entirely to introspection. Delving into the 'self' below the levels of superficial consciousness, he set himself to transforming into art the realities of experience as known to the inner emotional self. In his monumental 13 volume novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, it is evident how no detail ever escapes the amazingly observant eye of the artist, and how his experience is subjected to close scrutiny and a searching analysis. His characters are described in terms of their concealed emotional lives, evolving in a plane that has nothing to do with temporal dimensions.
法国小说家马塞尔·普鲁斯特（1871 - 1922）出生于巴黎奥特伊，一生体弱多病，一直受到母亲的悉心照料，直到1905年母亲去世，那时他34岁。他此前那种“社交花蝴蝶”般的生活从此改变。他远离社会，住在一套隔音公寓里，全身心地进行内省。他深入探究表层意识之下的“自我”，致力于将内心情感自我所知晓的经验现实转化为艺术。在他那部鸿篇巨制的13卷本小说《追忆似水年华》中，可以明显看出，没有任何细节能逃过这位艺术家极其敏锐的观察力，而且他的经历受到了仔细审视和深入分析。他笔下的人物是根据他们隐藏的情感生活来描述的，在一个与时间维度无关的层面上发展。
