• Shipra Jain
• Simranjit Singh

The story begins with his childhood, Proust’s narrator Marcel searches for what he calls time that has been lost; he finally regains that lost time in the final volume as a middle-aged man when he experiences a life-altering epiphany. Vivid memories of his life flood through him and he embraces his long-deferred vocation as an artist. What it means to Marcel to lose and regain time is an enticing mystery at the heart of Proust’s work, and the power and beauty of Proust’s excited descriptions of the moments in which Marcel “regains” time underscore the importance of the theme of temps perdu and temps retrouvé. Charles Embry has insightfully demonstrated the ways that Eric Voegelin’s approach toliterature, and in particular Voegelin’s accounts of participation, the in-between (metaxy), remembrance,andtheprimaryexperienceofthecosmos,canfruitfullyguideareadingofProust’s accountoftimelostandregained.The“blessedimpressions”refertothosepivotal moments,suchasMarcel’stastingofthemadeleinedippedinteaorhisstumblinguponunevenpaving stones,whichfloodhimwithinvoluntaryandoverwhelminglyvividmemories.Embry’sreadingofProustinlightofVoegeliniscompelling,andthispapermakes an attempt toapproach Embry asaguide.

time, lost, epiphany, remembrance, regain

"Embosoming And Rejecting The Tension Of Existence Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.904-908, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06142.pdf

"Embosoming And Rejecting The Tension Of Existence Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp904-908, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06142.pdf