The Fugitive

Love, jealousy, and the painful struggle to let go.

In The Fugitive, the sixth volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator is left to confront the loss of Albertine and the powerful emotions that follow. Even after she is gone, he remains consumed by questions about where she went, whom she loved, and what she may have kept from him. Memories, suspicions, and imagined possibilities keep the relationship alive in his mind, making it difficult for him to separate the woman he knew from the woman he remembers. As he gradually begins to move beyond his grief, Proust explores the strange ways love can survive after a relationship has ended and how time can change our understanding of people we once thought we knew. With its intimate look at desire, jealousy, memory, and loss, The Fugitive is one of the most emotionally revealing volumes of Proust’s great novel.

• The sixth volume of Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time
• Explores love, jealousy, grief, memory, loss, and emotional obsession
• Follows the narrator’s struggle to come to terms with Albertine’s absence
• Examines how memory can preserve, distort, and transform the past
• Continues Proust’s exploration of how time changes our understanding of ourselves and others

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A deeply intimate novel about what happens after love is lost, The Fugitive shows how the past can remain stubbornly alive in the mind long after the person we loved has disappeared from our lives.

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest achievements of modern literature. His writing transformed the novel through its exploration of memory, perception, consciousness, love, jealousy, art, and the passage of time. Drawing extensively on his own experiences and the social world of fin-de-siècle France, Proust created a vast literary universe whose influence continues to shape modern fiction.