In Search of Lost Time —also translated as
Remembrance of Things Past—is a novel in
seven volumes by
Marcel Proust (1871–1922). His most prominent work, it is known both for its length and its theme of
involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the
madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by
C. K. Scott Moncrieff and
Terence Kilmartin as
Remembrance of Things Past, but the title
In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since
D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.