While Anne had rewritten parts of her diary in response to a radio announcement that dairies kept during the war would be noteworthy after the Allied victory, her father – the only person in the annex to survive the Holocaust – initially hesitated to publish it. It spends a great deal of time on memory, especially involuntary memories prompted by the world around us. Keeping that in mind, In Search of Lost Time is a mammoth text that tells the life story of an unnamed narrator as he grows up in late 19th-century and early 20th-century France. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustĪttempting to summarize Proust is so difficult that Monty Python made a sketch about it. It has since sold tens of millions of copies and has come to earn glowing reviews after a short period of difficulty. When it was ready for print, expectations were low. Often frustrated, she once threw the manuscript out of her window into a snow bank before tearfully calling her editor. Over the next two and a half years, Lee worked to refine her masterpiece. The original draft, entitled “Go Set a Watchman” was described as “more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel.” However, Lee’s publisher saw the potential in the manuscript and encouraged her to improve it. This was made possible by donations from friends. Lee spent a year writing her first draft.
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