Captive

"Captive" - the work of the extraordinary French writer Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust, 1871-1922). "Captive" - the fifth novel from the series "In search of lost time." In this part, Marel Proust talks about love. Can this feeling bring happiness? The author believes that art, nature is higher than love, especially if it is unrequited. The cycle "In search of lost time" includes seven novels: "Towards Svan", "Under the shadow of the girls in bloom", "Hermant", "Sodom and Gomorra", "Captive", "Beaglyanka", "The Time Found" . Marcel Proust depresses that he is surrounded, in the majority, by people cynical, hypocritical, soulless. In the pages of his works he tries to find "lost time" - a time of sincerity, spiritual purity, spiritual perfection. After all, we all lived in this time - in childhood. Did real feelings and emotions remain forever there?