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The main character of the novel is a young man who falsely presents himself as Prince de H, and under this identity enters high society.
The prisoner is a depiction of life in Albertina. The love is one-sided, but the protagonist does not have the strength to end the relationship. Bergotte and Swann die, and after an argument with Albertine, he notices one morning that she has disappeared.
Two brothers, torn apart by the machinations of a younger, corrupt and deceitful creature, is a theme that is already familiar in the foundations of many literary works.
Benjamin: the parishioners in charge of flower arrangements on the altars are gossiping and arguing with each other, someone has messed up the confessional, and a few believers have started a petition against him.
In Duchesse de Guermantes, the protagonist and his family move to a new apartment, part of the de Guermantes palace in Paris. He admires members of high society and finally meets the Duchesse de Guermantes and his interest in her becomes akin to love.
In his best work, Germinal, Émile Zola realistically, in minute detail, described the inhuman living and working conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s.