Yapı Kredi Yayınları Caught Time

A key aspect of *Captured Time* is the novel’s aesthetic dimension. The narrator, who has spent years striving to uncover the truth by interpreting the worlds of high society, love, and art around him, has now reached the stage of creating the book he had put off writing for years—a book he had decided he could never write. Proust’s final step in *In Search of Lost Time*. *In Search of Lost Time* is at once a comic novel and a tragic novel, an adventure novel and a poetic novel, a novel of dreams and a novel of images... “How happy would the person who managed to write such a book be! What a tremendous effort it would take to write that book! To give an idea, it would be appropriate to draw comparisons with the loftiest and most diverse of the arts; for the author, who must reveal the distinct facets of each character to give them depth in such a book, must prepare it with meticulous care, constantly regrouping its elements—just as one would prepare for an assault, endure it like fatigue, accept it like a rule, build it like a church, adhere to it like a fast, overcome it like an obstacle, conquer it like a friendship, overindulge it like a child, create it like a universe—and, moreover, must not overlook those enigmas whose explanations can likely be found only in other worlds, whose premonition is what moves us most deeply in life and art...” Promotional text