In Search Of Time And The Art

The reason why In Search of The Lost Time is the greatest masterpiece of the 20 th century is not only its bold attempt and innovation in the writing techniques of the stream of consciousness,but also the inheritance of art spirit,the innovation of artistic techniques and the Philosophical thinking through the media of art.This is also an important basis that making In Search of The Lost Time to be a classic.Therefore,it is important to excavate and sort out the artistic details that appeared in the novel.Their existing forms can be artistic works and characters,even everything in daily life,lacking of these details,the connection and completeness of the novel will be destroyed,and the artistic atmosphere unique to Proust's writing cannot be formed.The first chapter of the thesis mainly sorts out the artists and their works that mentioned in the novel,and analyze his aesthetic preferences in painting and music,and discuss how the artists of Impressionism and Symbolism influence on Proust and their similarities,such as Monet,Wagner,Verlaine,Baudelaire,etc.,and analyze how Proust interacts with these artistic schools he admires in content and form,including expressing the effects of light and shadow of the impressionist school in writing,echoing the music's alignment method with the symmetrical structure of the novel,and so on.The second chapter of the thesis mainly discusses how family environment and social activities affect his artistic appreciation.Proust paints a picture of "the sentient beings" by observing and processing his daily life.Most of the character prototype material is derived from the two groups of upper class nobles and civilians.Proust regarded these prototypes as a blank to be sculpted.Just as the ordinary characters depicted by many artists,they may not understand what art is,but as inspiration and material,there is some kind of unconscious beauty in them that inspires artists to release them.The third chapter of the thesis mainly discusses Proust's view of art influenced by the above factors.How does his artistic view affect the formation of artistic features in the novel? Including the emphasis on image shaping and annotation of real life with art,etc.How Proust used the super-materiality,super-temporality,and diversity of artistic symbols to provide a multi-prism with an infinite perspective,so that the individual can walk out of the self-world and complete the salvation and transcendence in limited time and space,to increase the multiple possibilities of people living in the world.Proust sublimates the pain of life with the beauty of art,commemorates the mortal beings forgotten by art,and also creates a new world.No matter noble or common people,they are preserved in this novel and go through time and space and live forever with readers.Proust has gone,but In Search of The Lost Time has been a classic.It also shows that only those who can really understand and inherit the spiritual core of art and have the courage to have the innovation,can cross the long time to be a milestone in the history of literature.