he final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M.

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Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after
the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where Mme. Verdurin has become the
Princesse de Guermantes. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw
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