The investigation of Marcel Proust's Pursuit of The Past in The Context of Paul Ricoeur's time concept

The aim of this study is to examine the work of Marcel Proust in Pursuit of the Past, in the context of Paul Ricoeur's concept of time. Proust describes his memories of his childhood and the traces of these memories himself with deep depictions in his work called Pursuit of Past. For him, all the signs that are recalled contain meanings. While finding these meanings, Proust also wants to return to the past and tries to recapture time. For him, the emotion taken from the moment remembered is the criterion of recapturing time. He does not feel any emotions in the majority of the moments and that awaken him with an inner discomfort. Paul Ricoeur put interest in human memory over time in many of his works, especially in Time and Narrative. Ricoeur refers to history and fiction. These are directly related with time, memory and forgetting. Ricoeur spoke of Proust's narrative form because of this relationship and tried to analyze his technique. As a matter of fact, with the articulation of fiction on Proust 's childhood memories are transferred from the first narrator pen, contains the discourses about Ricoeur's time in his own literary depth.