Combray
The book about Combray is an allegory of an entire novel, a repertoire of Proustian themes and motifs.
Combray is at the same time one of the most successful novels of the mythical land of childhood in world literature, but also a multiple private symbol, without which the entire work (In search of lost time) would be incomprehensible. And the contribution to Proust's thesis on the permeation of experience and art should be an anecdote about a fictional name Combray: it was attached some time ago to the actual toponym Illiers. It is probably a unique example of the entry of literature into geography...'
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