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==Article title==
This is the first time I've seen this novel referred to as "''In Search of Lost Time''". Surely a better article title would be either the original french tile "''À la Recherche du Temps Perdu''" or the more common english translation "''Remembrance of Things Past''". [[User:Astronaut|Astronaut]] ([[User talk:Astronaut|talk]]) 05:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
:There has already been a lengthy discussion about this above. The title has remained "as is" because:
*''In Search of Lost Time'' is the most accurate and current translation of the title.
*There is no proof that ''Remembrance of Things Past'' is "the more common english translation" or even the most well-known or established. That is a subjective claim.
*Using the French title is too esotric for an '''English''' language encyclopedia. (It is Wikipedia's policy to use a translated English title - "The Plague" rather than "La Peste" - unless the work is known in English almost exclusively by the original language's title.)

The most current ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' renders the novel's title as "In Search of Lost Time". The other titles forward to this page, and they are explained and bolded in the first line. I think this is sufficient. [[Special:Contributions/130.49.158.137|130.49.158.137]] ([[User talk:130.49.158.137|talk]]) 20:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
:Perhaps this question could be revisited; I was astonished when I saw the title.
:*''In Search of Lost Time'' is an overly literal translation (I'm tempted to say absurdly so)
:*''Remembrance of Things Past'' (right or wrong), is a conventional rendering, recognized by English speakers.
:*''À la Recherche du Temps Perdu'' is equally recognized by English speakers - including francophobes such as myself.
:*The title should conform to [[WP:COMMONNAME]].
Now I need to go and check on ''Mein Kampf'' and ''Das Kapital''. --[[User:Catslash|catslash]] ([[User talk:Catslash|talk]]) 00:38, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
:''A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'' may be widely recognized by English speakers, whether they're fluent in French or not, but are you sure they all know how to ''type'' it? Computer input takes no prisoners, to get a hit you have to spell it absolutely right. I'm completely fluent myself and don't have a problem but how many English who haven't got a good grasp of French know how to spell "recherche du temps"?
:And okay, the old rendering of the title (Remembrance...) made more sense in English than the new one - I agree "In Search of Lost Time" sounds like a Laurel and Hardy movie where they're rummaging wildly to find a bag of time thrown away - but it's the title in the current translation and a redirect on the old one is enough. An encyclopaedia shouldn't normally be retro in its choice of spellings or article titles, unless it's a name that only a small circle of scholars use, opposed to a name with much wider currency (like, Céhov as a formally right but impossible transliteration of [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]). [[User:Strausszek|Strausszek]] ([[User talk:Strausszek|talk]]) 05:26, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
:::You described this situation perfectly, and nothing has changed in the 2½ years since you wrote that. ''In Search of Lost Time'' is indeed "a name that only a small circle of scholars use, opposed to a name with much wider currency", but - for some perverted reason - the morons who rule here have done exactly that anyway: they have chosen a trendy new title that they love in place of the stodgy old title everybody knows.<br><br>(By the way, in any sane world, the burden of proof would be on ''them'' - to prove that the ''new'' name is the one everybody (and by "everybody" I do NOT mean every Proust scholar, but everybody who speaks English and has heard of this novel) uses now - NOT on those who reasonably argue that the old name is still the one that is familiar to most people. But this is not a sane world: this is Wikipedia, where gangs of small-minded bullies rule.)<br><br>I suppose the principle that "an encyclopedia shouldn't normally be retro in its choice of ... article titles" has been taken to its extreme, and instead the most recently used title has been chosen, disregarding the fact that the new title has a very long way to go before it is the title most people think of, if that ever happens at all.<br><br>The title by which the English-speaking world has known the novel since its publication nearly a century ago has been thrown out in favor of a trendy new title that popped up less than 20 years ago in a single translation. Is it possible that the gods of this article have a vested interest in making sure the spurious Enright translation becomes THE translation, replacing forever the far better ones that came before?<br><br>In fact, this article seems to be violating WP's hallowed "neutral point of view" doctrine, by choosing to title the article after ONE recent translation and thereby promote it as the only authoritative translation - ''so'' authoritative, in fact, that it can in one fell swoop turn upside down many decades of familiarity with the title used in previous translations.<br><br>And what if the ''next'' translation published goes back to the traditional title? Will the article then revert to ''its'' proper title, since that will then be the "current" title? I doubt it. God forbid the little nazis who run this article should ever admit they made a mistake or do anything that might cut into sales of Enright's translation.--[[User:Jim10701|Jim10701]] ([[User talk:Jim10701|talk]]) 20:09, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
::::I see that another translation with the trendy new title was published after Enright's, but that doesn't affect the NOPV issue I raised above. The translators and publishers of the new versions have a high financial incentive to establish the new title as THE title so that they can push their new versions to institutions and individuals who already own perfectly good editions under the now-discredited original title.<br><br>It's not unlike any other business (Apple, Microsoft, etc) looking for high sales of new versions that may not actually benefit customers but are essential to keep shareholders happy. The insistence by those in power here on ramming the new title down readers' throats certainly can be seen as favoring a limited number of individuals who have books they want to sell and may be greatly assisted if Wikipedia uses ''their'' title instead of the original title.<br><br>Instead of simply recording what IS without any bias, as a non-profit encyclopedia should, this seems to be a case of trying to use Wikipedia to change the way readers think of a long-established work of literature, with no clear motivation except novelty, which equals book sales.<br><br>The fact that Britannica uses the new title is, if anything, an argument ''against'' its use here, since Britannica is ''NOT'' a non-profit encyclopedia but is very much in bed with publishers of other kinds of books as well; if Britannica can do what I just described and help push sales of ''Time Bandits'', or whatever this new title is, to individuals and institutions who already own copies of ''Remembrance of Things Past'', then why not? Books are books, and it wouldn't be the first time a theoretically objective publication was used to help increase sales of non-competing products.<br><br>Wikipedia is different, or it should be. We should not be in bed with the publishers or translators or writers or sellers of ''any'' books. If the new title really ''were'' the universally recognized title of this work, there would not be so many people like me here saying, "Whoa! What the hell's going on here?"<br><br>The time to change the title of a work so well recognized under its original title is when WP readers complain that they can't find what they're looking for under ''Remembrance of Things Past'' because that title truly is no longer recognized. That has not happened yet with this work.<br><br>Wikipedia should report what IS, not try to push what a few of its editors (supported by very many experts in the academic and publishing worlds) think SHOULD BE. The best gauge of the true status of this issue is how many WP readers express reasonable complaints. Relying on the academics and publishers to document something in which they have a vested interest is disingenuous. Of ''course'' they're all going to say the new title is the most widely recognized title, because their careers depend on it.<br><br>There is no source of statistics on how many actual readers identify the work by only its original title, because there is no financial incentive for developing such statistics. So we who are complaining will always lose that numbers game because we don't have powerful corporations and universities on our side feeding us whatever data we want.<br><br>The bottom line is this whole issue stinks of bias in favor of the new over the old for spurious reasons. As much as I dislike much of what goes on here at Wikipedia, we should better than that.--[[User:Jim10701|Jim10701]] ([[User talk:Jim10701|talk]]) 23:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
::As long as this page is controlled by navel-gazing Proust scholars who don't get out much, it will continue to be called "In Search of Lost Time" instead of the name that ''almost everybody else'' knows the book by. -[[Special:Contributions/68.76.16.14|68.76.16.14]] ([[User talk:68.76.16.14|talk]]) 19:11, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
::I just got this book in 2012 and my copy is called Remembrance of Things Past. I think this is still the most common name, and the name most people know it by. [[Special:Contributions/69.140.69.19|69.140.69.19]] ([[User talk:69.140.69.19|talk]]) 02:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
:::''Of course'' it is. The only people who ''don't'' know it as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' are the myopic bozos who have assumed control of this article. It's a great example of how Wikipedia has missed its goal of becoming a universal depository of information and become instead a gang clubhouse for self-declared experts to practice editorial circle-jerking and see whose sticks higher on the wall. I don't know ''anybody'' who uses Wikipedia any more as a source of information. It's just a gigantic video arcade for nerds now whose opinion matters to no one but themselves but is all the world to them.--[[User:Jim10701|Jim10701]] ([[User talk:Jim10701|talk]]) 06:53, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
::This name change is certainly regrettable. "In Search of Lost Time," whatever its merits on accuracy (and that seems debatable), is simply unattractive compared with "Remembrance of Things Past". It's not as though the earlier translator(s) didn't know the literal meaning of Proust's title, it's that they chose a more melodic and fluid way of expressing it. "Swann's Way" (Du Côté de chez Swann) is also not a direct translation, but the translators probably didn't think "Next Door to Swann's House" rolled off the tongue. Even Wikipedia's Article Naming guidelines say Recognizability and Naturalness take precedence over Precision. Several generations of readers would stare blankly at you if you referenced "In Search of Lost Time" at a cocktail party. I would be wondering which Indiana Jones movie had come and gone without my noticing. [[User:Cellmaker|Cellmaker]] ([[User talk:Cellmaker|talk]]) 18:23, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
:::I'll just add a more up-to-date note, from a native English-speaker who has lived in France for the last two decades. I cannot easily accept that "In Search of Lost Time" is an ''accurate'' translation. There's a well known Diane Keaton movie, [[Looking_for_Mr._Goodbar_(film)|Looking for Mr Goodbar]], which appeared in French cinemas as [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_recherche_de_Mister_Goodbar| À la recherche de Mister Goodbar]. So it might be equally accurate to translate the title as "Looking for Lost Time" (snappier too, but that might not have appealed to Proust). "In search of" is dressing it up a bit. If/whenever I lose my glasses, I am "à la recherche de mes lunettes", but I'm just '''looking for''' them. I'd create a completely different impression if I said that I was "in search of my spectacles"... [[User:Thomas Peardew|Thomas Peardew]] ([[User talk:Thomas Peardew|talk]]) 09:56, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
::You're dealing with the twits of Wikipedia here. What did you expect? Quality? Class? Maturity?
:In my opinion, and especially those of us who have English as our native language,  should STOP from trying to "translate into English" as if all other forms of expression can be rendered in this "one true language" of ours.  Nuances are significant, sometimes/often/usually,  and do not transfer/translate across languages - hence loan-words etc etc and the development of languages over time. It would be absurd and pathetically anal if there was a "rule" here requiring the English wiki to carry only English titles.  Happily such a rule doesn't exist (see [[Mein Kampf]]) but on another level: what IS an "English" word?!!  English is a mongrel language made up from Greek, and Hindi, and Latin, and Saxon, and German, and French among many many others.  Coming back to the title I find it sickening, patronising "the masses" and suggesting the dullards are incapable of comprehending that the book is a FRENCH book, and only TRANSLATED into English!  Redirects exist for a a reason on Wiki (see [[My Struggle]], so arguing over which of the rubbish translations is the best is simply ridiculous.  The title of the book is ... the title of the book, that is its title, there is no other.  The rest, ALL of the rest are merely translations, very helpful translations, but ONLY translations.  If all of this were not enough to get the title changed then what about simple respect?  This fervent evangelical rebadging of cultures and histories, which seems to be being fanned from the US, where an understanding that a lot of folk in the rest-of-the-world don't speak English at all seems a rarity, is merely cultural imperialism and shouldn't be tolerated, let alone justified, here on wiki.  [[User:LookingGlass|LookingGlass]] ([[User talk:LookingGlass|talk]]) 08:14, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
:I know this has been done to death earlier, but I just wish to record my view - which is that it's a pity to use ISOLT rather than Scott Moncrieff's Shakespearean title. I particularly regret seeing Enright's revision (which introduced ISOLT) described as a "new translation". It's not: it's simply an updated version of Scott Moncrieff's. [[User:Thomas Peardew|Thomas Peardew]] ([[User talk:Thomas Peardew|talk]]) 12:38, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I still don't get the reasoning surrounding using the ISOL title? There doesn't seem to be a consensus for using it – and certainly anyone with any aesthetic sense would go for the former Shakespearean title but that's besides the point. I don't particularly see the value of any title being more important for being a seemingly more direct translation, since that is not really the point of translation. If it were, it might as well have been In Search of Times Lost or something similar. Remembrance is at least an equally valid title and also came first. Do we not as wikipedia carry a responsibility to this title? We're reinforcing ISOL as being somehow more correct without any real reason for this. Is the Moncrief translation not what made it a classic in the English language in the first place? [[User:Haywaneh|Haywaneh]] ([[User talk:Haywaneh|talk]]) 20:50 PM, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

==Major/minor theme==
In the "Themes" section, the following words appear: "Homosexuality is a major theme in the novel&hellip;." If this is true, can someone give a few stronger examples? The ones in the current article are rather weak and are unconvincing as evidence that this topic is a major theme. To me, this is merely another example of Wikipedian bias towards making that behavior seem natural.[[User:Lestrade|Lestrade]] ([[User talk:Lestrade|talk]]) 17:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
::Have you read the book?  A tenured professor who regularly teaches a semester length class on the book at UC Berkeley (currently tied with Harvard for the number one English department in the country) includes homosexuality as a principal theme in his cursory exegesis of the novel.  I think you would be very hard pressed to find a Proust scholar who disagrees.  The examples seemed perfectly fine to me, and unless many disagree, (and while I know little of the wiki by-laws) common sense suggests that the burden of proof is recumbent upon the accuser.
:Good grief, Lestrade, Vol. 4 is titled ''Sodom and Gomorrah''! How direct can an author be? [[User:Eschatologicalguy|Eschatologicalguy]] ([[User talk:Eschatologicalguy|talk]]) 15:17, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
::It is a good point, if you haven't read the novel. But I agree that the description should be elaborated on. Charlus and Saint-Loup should undoubtedly get a mention. Also, does anyone else think that a mention of the transgender theory, in that Albertine = Albert, etc, should be included? [[User:Beardedbiblio|Beardedbiblio]] ([[User talk:Beardedbiblio|talk]]) 20:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I wish simply to add that the literal prosaic translation of Kilmartin lacks the poetic rhythm and artistic sonority of Moncrieff's brilliance. It's analogous to a mechanical performance of a Chopin nocturne. The notes may be right but the soul is missing.----

== Gay Proust ==
I added mention of Proust's sexuality, a bit of autobiographical detail I think rather important in light of the mention of homosexuality as a theme.  Particularly where the novel is (rightly) described as semi-autobiographical, it is worth noting that there are major, crucial differences between the narrator and Proust himself, some of which are very revealing about the nature of the text and the author both.  Anyway, again, because both themes of homosexuality and the book's autobiographical tendencies are each mentioned in the article, this deviation is important and noteworthy as far as I'm concerned.  Despite being quite resolved about this, I'm not sure the mention of Proust's being gay belongs where I put it.  Comment?  Assent?  Disagreement?  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/99.137.90.100|99.137.90.100]] ([[User talk:99.137.90.100|talk]]) 05:14, 21 January 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Category for Deletion ==
See [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_March_16#Category:.C3.80_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu_.28novel.29]] for current discussion pertaining to this page and notionally others which might be created. [[User:AllyD|AllyD]] ([[User talk:AllyD|talk]]) 19:40, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

==Requested move==
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The result of the proposal was '''NO CONSENSUS''' to move page, per discussion below. -[[User:GTBacchus|GTBacchus]]<sup>([[User talk:GTBacchus|talk]])</sup> 21:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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[[In Search of Lost Time]] → [[Remembrance of Things Past]] — [[WP:NCCN|Most common name]] — —[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯ 21:11, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

===Survey===
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*'''Oppose'''. Indeed, very strongly oppose! 'Remembrance' was always an error, and to the best of my knowledge no edition with that title has been published since 1982 except for the various rip-offs of the 1920s public domain translation by CKSM. Even in 1982, James Grieve had started a new and more idiomatic translation under the series title ''A Search for Lost Time''. [[User:Eschatologicalguy|Eschatologicalguy]] ([[User talk:Eschatologicalguy|talk]]) 15:10, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
:'''Response''' So you are not challenging the idea that this is the most common name, but that this is a poor translation? —[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯ 20:53, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
* '''Oppose'''. Reliable sources these days tend to prefer ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', though the other title is of course popular too. Please see my entry under [[#Discussion]] below. [[User:Eubulides|Eubulides]] ([[User talk:Eubulides|talk]]) 04:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. At this time there are three versions in English of Proust's novel for sale on Amazon.com. There is the Random House / Modern Library translation by Scott Moncrieff as brought up to date by Kilmartin and Enright, available in a paperback set published in 2003. There is the Penguin translation by seven different translators, published in hardcover and paperback at various times from 2002 to 2006. Both of these are based mostly on the definitive French edition of Proust's novel, and both are titled In Search of Lost Time. Finally, there is the Random House / Vintage paperback edition of 1982, which is the previous and less authoritative Scott Moncrieff / Kilmartin translation, and really represents Random House eking out a few more dollars from its investment in that transitional work. This is the only in-print edition titled Remembrance of Things Past. It harks back, really, to the 1920s version. And after all, 1982 was twenty-seven years ago. Everything since then has been known as In Search of Lost Time. [[User:Cubdriver|Cubdriver]] ([[User talk:Cubdriver|talk]]) 23:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
* '''Oppose'''. The title 'Remembrance of Things Past' was lifted by Moncrieff from the Shakespeare Sonnet 30. Proust himself was unhappy with that translation. Are we reading Shakespeare or Proust? Why should we take the wrong translation by Moncrieff into consideration if we now have the right literal translation (which is used by all publishers) taken from Proust's own title 'À la recherche du temps perdu'? [[User:pratinavanil]]
*'''Oppose'''. See above reasons. There is no precedent for "Rememberance" [[User:Beardedbiblio|Beardedbiblio]] ([[User talk:Beardedbiblio|talk]]) 20:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

===Discussion===
:''Any additional comments:''
Do you have evidence that it is the more common name? [[User:FingersOnRoids|<span style="color:darkgreen">ƒingers</span><span style="color:gray"><b><sup>on</sup></b></span><b><span style="color:darkred"><sub>Roids</sub></span></b>]] 01:32, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
:'''Evidence''':
::#The translation portion of this article implies that ''Remembrance'' was the more common title at least until the 1990s.
::#[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22In+Search+of+Lost+Time%22+Proust&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Google: "In Search of Lost Time" Proust - 64,200 hits] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=uoK&num=100&q=%22Remembrance+of+Things+Past%22+Proust&btnG=Search Google: "Remembrance of Things Past" Proust - 141,000 hits]
::#Amazon: "In Search of Lost Time" - 865 books and Amazon: "In Search of Lost Time" - 5,260 books (blacklist link)
:None definitive, together compelling. —[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]❤[[User talk:Koavf|T]]☮[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]☺[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]]☯<nowiki>--~~~~Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> 04:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
* '''Reliable sources'''. These days, reliable sources that comment on the issue strongly prefer ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]''. For example:
:* "Proust’s ''In Search of Lost Time'' (which we used to know in English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'')" —{{cite journal |author= Wyatt S |title= Review: making time and taking time |journal= Social Studies of Science |year=2007 |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=821–4 |doi=10.1177/0306312707080044}}
:* "In Proust’s opus magnum work ''In Search of Lost Time'' ... (poorly translated as ''Remembrance of Things Past'')" —{{cite journal |author=Bogousslavsky J |title=Marcel Proust's diseases and doctors: the neurological story of a life |journal=Front Neurol Neurosci |volume=22 |issue= |pages=89–104 |year=2007 |pmid=17495507 |doi=10.1159/0000102874}}
: More examples could easily be found. [[User:Eubulides|Eubulides]] ([[User talk:Eubulides|talk]]) 21:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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==Requested Move II==
It wasn't immediately clear to me that the above section was closed, so here is a continuation section if anyone is interested in discussing this further. [[User:Cubdriver|Cubdriver]] ([[User talk:Cubdriver|talk]]) 18:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

== A title in English ==
To my ear "Remembrance of Things Past" is a much better title than "In Search of Lost Time" in ''English''. Lost time. in English, means wasted time, doesn't it? Since when has it become necessary to translate titles of foreign novels literally? The evocation of the Shakespearean sonnet works in English. The new title is almost meaningless unless it it translated back into French. Shall we change all accepted titles to literal translations? Begin with Crime and Punishment and continue almost ''ad infinitum''.[[User:Jim Lacey|Jim Lacey]] ([[User talk:Jim Lacey|talk]]) 15:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
:I completely concur. The one I really hate is the Davis translation of Swann's Way: "The Way by Swann's." I guess they figured the reader might get confused and think Swann's Way meant "Swann's way of doing things" or something...like Carlito's Way. Or else the hyper-correct, "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" for the perfectly good "Within a Budding Grove." Granted it's more literal...but does it even make sense? One translation revision I agree with is changing "Cities on the Plain" - a period sensitivity to mentioning Sodom? - back to the obvious "Sodom and Gomorrah." On a final translation note, sometimes the lack of literalness IS the problem. There's this great passage at the very end of "Guermante's Way" when the Duke de Guermantes yells to a departing Swann (Moncrieff translation), "You, now, don’t let yourself be taken in by the doctors’ nonsense, damn them. They’re donkeys. You’re as strong as the Pont Neuf. You’ll live to bury us all!” I always thought the literal translation "asses" would make much more sense. In English do we really call people "donkeys"? Again, maybe a period sensitivity. But the translation is still very nice. But a later version...can't remember which...completely eliminated Pont Neuf and replaced it with "strong as an ox" or "fit as a fiddle" or some such nonsense.[[User:Straitgate|Straitgate]] ([[User talk:Straitgate|talk]]) 21:58, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

The meaning of Proust's complex and playful title is not conveyed by 'Remembrance of things past.' <<Lost time in English, means wasted time, doesn't it?>> it means the same in French. [[User:33gsd|33gsd]] ([[User talk:33gsd|talk]]) 17:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)33gsd

"Temps perdu" also means "wasted time" in French, yes. There are now two translations in English that use the title "In Search of Lost Time" (Modern Library & Penguin).[[User:Mcalkins|Mcalkins]] ([[User talk:Mcalkins|talk]]) 23:37, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
:I agree.  I read (a significant part of) this book which, at the time, had the title "Remembrance of Things Past."  That is the nicest name for the book. 
:When I found out, in the mid-1980s, that the English name had been changed, I was shocked. Almost every review of the book I had read suggested that it was a waste of time. I never thought that they would put that into the title.  I have reviewed a portion of one of the more recent translations and have read some critical reviews. I could not find anyone who likes this book or anyone who likes the newer translations.  Clearly, the title should reflect the concept of "lost time" or, even better, "wasted time."
:Another thing, I don't think "a search" conveys the English meaning of "la recherche." It's like the difference between view and review or search and research. They don't mean the same thing. Nor do they mean doing the same thing a second time. I would use "cherchez" to mean searching for something.  I would use "recherchez" to mean investigating something. 
:Although my choice for a translation of the title would be "Looking into Wasted Time," the current title comes close enough to conveying the author's joke. Leave it alone until newer translations comes along. --[[User:Komowkwa|Komowkwa]] ([[User talk:Komowkwa|talk]]) 22:37, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
::The editors that "own" this article will never allow any title but the one that they deem "correct" to be used.  You could conduct a survey of all anglophones on the planet showing that "Remembrance of Things Past" is the better-known title of the book, and they would not relent. -[[Special:Contributions/68.76.16.14|68.76.16.14]] ([[User talk:68.76.16.14|talk]]) 21:39, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
:::I would rather see ''Remembrance'' here. It is famous under that title and not some other. [[User:Varlaam|Varlaam]] ([[User talk:Varlaam|talk]]) 04:34, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
:Re. The most commonly used, the favourite or commonly preferred title ;

''When I found out, in the mid-1980s, that the English name had been changed, I was shocked. [I understand the following sentence as] I read several reviews, and they all said the new translation was a waste of time)'' (Komovkwa)

(1)For a second opinion: I read the book in French, beginning around 2001, and have subsequently only heard of it as 'In Search...'  I expect there is no doubt as to whether 'In search...' is the dominant title in academia. My impression was that Montcrief's  translation and title were innacurate, slightly ameteurish, snobbish and out-of date, and I had a surprise that Montcrief's title is also currently used. But I don't have any investment in it being used on Wikipedia, as they say, I ain't bothered. And:

(varlaam) ''I would rather see ''Remembrance'' here. It is famous under that title and not some other.'' 
I think that the number of hits from a search engine makes a good case in favour of 'Remembrance...'

(2)As for accuracy, quote for Komova: ''Another thing, I don't think "a search" conveys the English meaning of "la recherche." It's like the difference between view and review or search and research. They don't mean the same thing. Nor do they mean doing the same thing a second time. I would use "cherchez" to mean searching for something. I would use "recherchez" to mean investigating something. ()Although my choice for a translation of the title would be "Looking into Wasted Time(...)" ''

This is going backwards. It is a perfect translation, no? I already discuss '(le)temps perdu.' As for the phrase 'a la recherche de,' at age 11, were were told to buy a compact bilingual dictionary for French classes at the bog-standard state comprehensive I attended, and even that dictionary is enough to tell me the phrase can translate 'in pursuit of.' La police est A la recherche de (person or thing)=  the police are in pursuit of, searching for, looking for, the police are after. (La police recherche can be 'investigate, look into.')

(3) As for the better title, (although maybe this discussion should not officially be on the Talk Page): to me, Proust's title isn't just awkward, it is mind-bending, and it is genius, I could write an essay on it. But the key thing is to prove that Montcrief's title is better known etc. than 'In Search...' (which IS Proust's title). [[User:33gsd|33gsd]] ([[User talk:33gsd|talk]]) 13:36, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

==Broad humor==
The novel is full of fairly broad humor about social attitudes and behavior. Shouldn't it be mentioned? [[User:Tsinfandel|Tsinfandel]] ([[User talk:Tsinfandel|talk]]) 12:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
:Sure has some satiric edge, Proust did have a good sense of the absurdities of social convention and of the kind of things pride and desire can make us do sometimes. [[User:Strausszek|Strausszek]] ([[User talk:Strausszek|talk]]) 02:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

==Swan's Way redirection==
Why does "Swan's Way" redirect here? The long distance path is far more likely to be the object of a search than the English translation of the title of an obscure sub-volume of a French novel. It's not even spelt the same way. [[User:Treesmill|treesmill]] ([[User talk:Treesmill|talk]]) 01:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
:"The prominent French novel, on the syllabus of any French literature course at University, is far more likely to be the object of a search than the name of an obscure footpath in Buckinghamshire." (Corrected.)[[Special:Contributions/128.118.153.79|128.118.153.79]] ([[User talk:128.118.153.79|talk]])  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 18:54, 9 April 2010 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

Since swann's way redirects here, something in the article should explain wh at swann's way refers to? [[User:AndrewKay|akay]] ([[User talk:AndrewKay|talk]]) 09:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

==Archives==
Why are Archive 1 and Archive 2 the same? [[User:Treesmill|treesmill]] ([[User talk:Treesmill|talk]]) 01:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you please remove that In Search of Lost Time it is the definitive modern novel, it has no citation.

== semi-autobiographical vs encrypted "roman a clef" ==
The narrator/lead character (who is named as "Marcel" in passing, twice, but late in the work, and this could be an oversight, written in a draft portion) has a good deal in common with Proust, and they share some stations of life and significant people around them. And Proust also, famously, used some of his real-life acquaintances as inspiration/models for people such as Albertine, Charlus, the Guermantes couple and others. But far as I know, very little that happens in the book and which doesn't involve the lead guy directly was nicked from reality. Unlike what people like Truman Capote sometimes imagined, it's not a "roman a clef", it doesn't actually ''recount'' specific events in high society Parisian life. It gives an unflattering general picture sometimes, but it doesn't bring out specific juicy stories or even anecdotes that had happened in the real salons and which were being kept off the public or even kept off the ears of most people who entered those places. I think this should be pointed out, because everyone knows the book was inspired by real life people (why don't someone start a Proust wiki online to discuss the characters, their models and the r/l families of these?)but that's not the same as being a kind of "real life novel", and today we're living in an age when "docu-novels" and blurring of the border between facts, gossip and literature are all the rage [[User:Strausszek|Strausszek]] ([[User talk:Strausszek|talk]]) 13:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
: Well, the article nowhere characterizes ALRDTP as a roman a clef. Are you referring to the links at the bottom? I have no problem with your removing it. [[User:Eschatologicalguy|Eschatologicalguy]] ([[User talk:Eschatologicalguy|talk]]) 20:25, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

== Error in Link ==
The link to the article on Telegraph comparing different translations are wrong. Can anyone please correct it?
[[User:Prophetoffrivolity|Prophetoffrivolity]] ([[User talk:Prophetoffrivolity|talk]]) 16:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Done.  I looked at the old text at web.archive.org, then searched the Telegraph's current site for that title.  [[User:Ale And Quail|Ale And Quail]] ([[User talk:Ale And Quail|talk]]) 00:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

== "Semi autobiographical novel" ==
Sorry to say this, but calling this a "Semi autobiographical novel" is a complete misunderstanding. Proust's novel is never about himself, nor is it about his life, it is about how the narrator presently remembers his past life. The introducition seems to concentrate on technical or otherwise unintersting details, but never introduces the novel and its originality at the time it was made. I suggest using the introduction written on the French Wikipedia, which does present the novel, and is also quite more interesting. We should rather focus on the novel from a literature and historical view point, and use sources for that. [[User:Lerichard|Lerichard]] ([[User talk:Lerichard|talk]]) 11:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

== Madeleine Episode ==
This should be recounted and explained.  "Proust's Madeleines" have entered popular culture, and they deserve their own section here, or even their own article.  The text we already have says it is "famous" but doesn't say what it is.  [[User:Spot|Spot]] ([[User talk:Spot|talk]]) 15:46, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

== Synopsis ==
I thought this deserved to have a synopsis, so I wrote one.  It is 4400 words; War and Peace has one that's 2900 words, and this novel is three times longer.  So despite the length, I think it's justified, if ever a long section is.  I tried to mention everything getting significant discussion over a number of pages, not just every observation.  Naturally the first and last volumes are a bit longer since they introduce characters and tell their final fates.  I also added some pictures that would make it look better.  Lastly, I added some characters to the list, which was a little sparse.  <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Phantom Connoisseur|Phantom Connoisseur]] ([[User talk:Phantom Connoisseur|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Phantom Connoisseur|contribs]]) 05:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:Excellent, a synopsis was sorely lacking indeed! --[[User:Morn|Morn]] ([[User talk:Morn|talk]]) 09:38, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

== Pop-culture references ==
Prousts work has been the base for monthy pythons' 31st flying circus episode (5th ep in the 3rd season) called "The All-England Summarise Proust Competition", in which, as the title suggests, a competition is held where contestants have 15 seconds to summarize Prousts epic work. The absurd of such an idea is pretty obvious. For a quick view try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lPVgTbRQA
--[[User:The drinker|The drinker]] ([[User talk:The drinker|talk]]) 11:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

== Berma or la Berma? ==
only La Berma makes sense to me, but the question is which do translaters prefer. I don't have access to a modern translation.  <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:33gsd|33gsd]] ([[User talk:33gsd|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/33gsd|contribs]]) 21:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Initial Publication: Volume Count ==
What does it mean to say that the original novel was published in seven volumes, and then list nine (Cities of the Plain and Guermantes Way, two volumes each?).
:It would be more proper to say that it was published in seven divisions, with the divisions CoP and GW each published in two volumes. The first printing in English was comprised of 11 volumes. One should avoid the Blossom translation of the final volume, and seek out the wonderful Hudson translation.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/208.127.3.249|208.127.3.249]] ([[User talk:208.127.3.249|talk]]) 00:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Respect authors and their works ==
This is posted above but after writing it I find myself so incensed by what veers close to outright racism that I want to flag it up on those grounds. [Copy-Paste of comment from above.] [[User:LookingGlass|LookingGlass]] ([[User talk:LookingGlass|talk]]) 08:35, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
:It didn't make any more sense the second time. What was your point? That we should redirect this page to the French-language article? No? Then this article will be in English and cultural imperialism has nothing to do with it.
:It's fine to be angsty. You'll (hopefully) grow out of it. There's no need, however, to copy your own replies verbatim multiple times. Once is more than enough.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User talk:LlywelynII|<span class="texhtml" style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em;">Llywelyn<span style="color:gold;">II</span></span>]] 04:35, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

==Indefinite [[WP:Semi-protection|Semi-protection]]==
I suggest that there is a case for applying indefinite [[WP:semi-protection|Semi-protection]] to this article to stop unhelpful edits by Ips. [[User:Xxanthippe|Xxanthippe]] ([[User talk:Xxanthippe|talk]]) 00:20, 22 April 2014 (UTC).

==Move==
When this discussion comes around again, [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=In+Search+of+Lost+Time%2CRemembrance+of+Things+Past&year_start=1800&year_end=2020&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CIn%20Search%20of%20Lost%20Time%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CRemembrance%20of%20Things%20Past%3B%2Cc0 just a reminder that ''Remembrance of Things Past'' remains well over twice as popular] as the unfortunate and cacophonous "Lost Time". We're not here to take sides in academic debates or even to join academics in their distain for the ''hoi polloi''&rsquo;s failure to master French. (Not that it matters: Google Scholar is even more lopsided against the neologism, preferring Remembrance [https://scholar.google.co.jp/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Remembrance+of+Things+Past%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp= 4] to [https://scholar.google.co.jp/scholar?hl=en&q=%22In+Search+of+Lost+Time%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp= 1]) We're here to reflect English common usage and this page remains at the wrong place.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User talk:LlywelynII|<span class="texhtml" style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em;">Llywelyn<span style="color:gold;">II</span></span>]] 04:30, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

The article isn't all about Scott-Moncrieff's now-superseded translation. It is about Proust's novel, whose title in English is In Search of Lost Time, the title under which English translations have been published for a quarter of a century. The Scott-Moncrieff version is a somewhat different book, adapted to the different social and legal climate in Britain at the time. When he came to translate Sodom and Gomorrah, Scott-Moncrieff was worried that he might be prosecuted. He had seen this problem from the outset and his adoption of the incongruous Shakespeare tag as the overall title was a bid for respectability, like his adoption of a prose style modelled on Henry James. When Scott-Moncrieff's was the only translation, his Shakespeare tag was the title of the book in English, but that's no longer the case -- and, even at the time, people often just referred to the book as 'Proust' ('Have you read Proust?') or used the French title to avoid the Bard reference. [[User:Khamba Tendal|Khamba Tendal]] ([[User talk:Khamba Tendal|talk]]) 14:55, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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== "in popular culture" ==
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*The television series "[[Gilmore Girls]]" references the book and its author in Season 3, Episode 17: "A Tale of Poes and Fire." Rory goes to visit her friend Paris, who's been in bed for five days after being rejected from Harvard. Paris says, "Proust wrote all 3,000 pages of ''In Search of Lost Time'' in bed. If it's good enough for him..."

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== Bibliography ==
Maybe the most important reading for understanding Proust, among other literary geniuses, is missing here.
I am talking of Rene Girard's "Mensonge Romantique et Verite Romanesque". 
[[User:Beickus|Beickus]] ([[User talk:Beickus|talk]]) 01:16, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

== Screen adaptations ==
Around 1970, renowned Italian filmmaker [[Luchino Visconti]] was planning to make a film adaptation of parts of the book. The preparations had gone some way, there was a draft script and he had been talking to some actors to get them on board. Notably, he had managed to get the long-retired legend Greta Garbo to accept the role of the exiled Queen of Naples (who lived in Paris after Italy had been united from the north). Unfortunately,. Visconti mentioned this catch to some journalists, it hit the press prematurely and Garbo, a famously shy star, turned around and bowed out. Visconti lost interest in the project soon after, and did ''Death in Venice'' instead, but the proposed Proust film is so notable that it merits a line in the article. [[Special:Contributions/192.121.232.253|192.121.232.253]] ([[User talk:192.121.232.253|talk]]) 12:39, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
:Yes, if you  can find a source. [[User:Xxanthippe|Xxanthippe]] ([[User talk:Xxanthippe|talk]]) 21:34, 15 February 2019 (UTC).

== Separate pages for volumes? ==
Should each volume have its own page? For example [[Swann's Way]] redirects here but [[Spring Snow]] has its own page despite being part of the [[ Sea of Fertility]]. Should more pages be created?

== Should new pages be added for separate volumes? ==
Should new pages be added for separate volumes? For example [[Swann's Way]] redirects here but [[Spring Snow]] has its own page despite being part of the [[Sea of Fertility]]. Should new pages be created?

== Alternate translation names ==
Would it be okay in the [[In Search of Lost Time#Synopsis]] section, where the name of each volume is given (the subsections being named for those volumes) to include somewhere in the text the names of alternate translation titles? I am thinking for example of "Within a Budding Grove" aka "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower". [[User:Novellasyes|Novellasyes]] ([[User talk:Novellasyes|talk]]) 16:28, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

==  Added reference to S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)  ==
This and another edit (both 25 August) were reverted 25 August 2021 with the comment "Thanks but better sources needed." The sources on both edits reference the original material and seem no less adequate than others in the same section of this page.  Please explain how the sources could be "better". [[User:Ghartlieb|Ghartlieb]] ([[User talk:Ghartlieb|talk]]) 21:16, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

== Title should be French ==
The novel is best known by its French title (and after that, by the much more common translation of ''Remembrance of Things Past''). The article’s title should be the French title, by which it is best known (and which is… the title of the book). [[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]] ([[User talk:Zanahary|talk]]) 04:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

== Phrasing in [[In_Search_of_Lost_Time#Memory|Memory]] section ==
See this reverted change: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Search_of_Lost_Time&oldid=prev&diff=1214333598 . The original is very clunky. Would anyone else like to try to clean that part up? Thanks! (pinging [[User:Xxanthippe|Xxanthippe]]) [[User:HolyT|Holy]] ([[User talk:HolyT|talk]]) 22:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
:The tag has been removed but the problematic writing remains. (See this change https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Search_of_Lost_Time&diff=1214589346&oldid=1214567519.) What's the fix? [[User:HolyT|Holy]] ([[User talk:HolyT|talk]]) 16:36, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

== Requested move 1 December 2024 ==
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[[:In Search of Lost Time]] → {{no redirect|À la recherche du temps perdu}} – This is the most common name for the work in English-language scholarly sources; it is the name by which this book is best known; and "In Search of Lost Time" is the least common of the three common names in English sources (with "Remembrance of Things Past" being the more common English translation. Previous arguments against this move argued that Wikipedia's strict input made using diacritics impractical; that was in 2010 and this problem no longer exists; as such, we should move to the most common name in English sources per [[WP:UE]]. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 15:16, 1 December 2024 (UTC) <small>—&nbsp;'''''Relisting.'''''&nbsp;<span style="font-family:monospace;font-weight:bold">[[User:Bunnypranav|<span style="color:#63b3ed">~/Bunny</span><span style="color:#2c5282">pranav</span>]]:&lt;[[User talk:Bunnypranav|<span style="color:#2c5282">ping</span>]]&gt;</span> 11:15, 8 December 2024 (UTC)</small>
*'''Comment''' Can you please cite sources? [[User:162 etc.|162 etc.]] ([[User talk:162 etc.|talk]]) 17:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
*:I'm not aware of any source discussing the relative preeminence of the titles among English-language Proust scholars, but I can assemble English-language reliable sources and the titles they use. These are some of the most widely-held English-language books on Proust (found with WorldCat), plus other preeminent volumes from [https://research.lib.buffalo.edu/proust/crit-in-eng this guide to English-language Proust criticism]:
::{| class="wikitable"
|+ Experts roundup
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! Source !! Title
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1330202006 Joshua Landy] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/52472854Roger Shattuck] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/872702503 Malcolm Bowie] || ''Things Past''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/432042786 Richard Bales] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/25746309 Barbara J. Bucknall] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/25202522 William C. Carter] || ''Things Past''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/922571699 Antoine Compagnon] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/246812890 Richard Goodkin] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1006467431 Sheila Stern] || ''temps perdu''
|-
| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/Narrative-discourse-revisited/oclc/18225256 Gérard Genette (trans. Jane Lewin)] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/475962281 Philip Thody] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/925145115 Howard Nemerov] || ''Things Past''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/70774142 Renate Bartsch] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1119766674 Thomas Baldwin] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1004756965 Stephen Bachmann] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/743199644 Dirk van Hulle] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/47023640 Allen Thiher] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/45505924 Jessica Schiff Berman] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/859155684 Adam A. Watt] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/2797728 Stephen Ullman] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/310395234 Teresa Whitington] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/154689970 Michael Murphy] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1196377206 Patrick FFrench] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1348220065 James R. Martel] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/32543138 Adam Piette] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/2812354 Victor E. Graham] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/68416900 Christine M. Cano] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/13063824 Léon Pierre-Quint] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/490354275 David R. Ellison] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/938978323 Edward J. Hughes] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/476682532 Patrick Brady] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/756581456 Howard Moss] || ''Things Past''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/940922299 Roger Shattuck] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/937648326 Elliott Coleman] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/639672527 Milton Hindus] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/844321348 F. C. Green] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1020466234 Harold March] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/690090161 Adam A. Watt] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/290472306 Patrick Alexander] || ''Things Past''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/77653489 Mary Ann Caws] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1280051176 Christopher Prendergrast] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1199656317 Gian Balsamo] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1154948287 Maurizio Ferraris] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/889538011 Leo Bersani] || ''temps perdu''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/947108914 Allen Thiher] || ''Lost Time''
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| [https://search.worldcat.org/title/916499584 Eve Sedgwick] || ''temps perdu''
|} <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 18:31, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:Note that I initially listed [[À la Recherche du Temps Perdu]] as the new title—that capitalization is incorrect, and I've corrected it to the conventional French casing, but transclusions and sorting pages may not reflect this change. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 19:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. Since this is English Wikipedia, titles of entries delineating books should reflect the form that appears on the covers of those books as published in the English-speaking world. Some works of French literature, the ones with short titles, such as ''[[Les Misérables]]'' or ''[[Père Goriot]]'' are indeed most frequently translated and published in the English-speaking world under their original titles. However, that is not the case with ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' since I am unable to find a single English-language edition that uses this work's French title.&nbsp;—[[User:Roman Spinner|'''Roman Spinner''']] <small>[[User talk:Roman Spinner|(talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Roman Spinner|contribs)]]</small> 02:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
*:From what policy do you draw this interpretation? Because [[WP:Naming conventions (use English)]] says the form most commonly used in English-language sources is the one to use—and this article is about the novel by Proust, not the published books of its translated text. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 03:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:::Proust scholars and literary writers / researchers from the English-speaking world who specialize in  French literature tend to use in their writings French titles for all works from French literature. The more practical venues would be newspapers and magazines that feature reviews of translated books as well as articles about the specific translation using the updated English title, ''In Search of Lost Time'', as it appears in notices from English-language book publishers, bookstores and libraries.&nbsp;—[[User:Roman Spinner|'''Roman Spinner''']] <small>[[User talk:Roman Spinner|(talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Roman Spinner|contribs)]]</small> 05:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
::::Expert sources are preferable to lower-quality lay sources. Magazine reviews of individual English translations are not better than major critical/historical works by English-language writers on Proust and the novel. [[WP:BESTSOURCES]] recommends {{tq|the best respected and most authoritative reliable sources}} (that would be books by scholars of literature and Proust), and [[WP:SOURCETYPES]] says {{tq|When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources}} (that would not be reviews of new English editions of the novel in newspapers and magazines). You're obviously entitled to your view on naming conventions—though whether it's that Wikipedia articles on novels should be titled after English editions, or that magazine reviews of English translations of novels are preferable to in-depth academic books is not clear—but neither of your stated rationales seem to be supported by policy, and you've cited none. As the RM template above says, commenters should base their arguments on article titling policy, and arguments that are unsubstantiated in policy do not really hold weight. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 06:49, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
:::::Your reasoning is indeed well argued, but the point remains that Wikipedia is a general interest encyclopedia, not a collection of peer-reviewed submissions to academic publications. Such submissions are, of course, welcome but, whenever possible, [[WP:COMMONNAME]]S are preferable to scientific names.
:::::Seemingly, where French literature is concerned, English-language scholars tend to discuss individual works either in-universe or within the milieu of French sociocultural context, rather than be concerned with book titles used by publishers and booksellers in the English-speaking world.
:::::Other than academics or Francophiles, the average English-language reader would search Amazon for an English title, especially one that has been recently published and reviewed in such [[WP:RELIABLE SOURCES]] as ''The Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times'' or ''The Wall Street Journal''.
:::::I doubt that there would be consensus for using a foreign-language book title, however well known among scholars and academics, as the main title header of an English Wikipedia entry if there is not a single English-language edition which uses that foreign-language form as the book's official title.&nbsp;—[[User:Roman Spinner|'''Roman Spinner''']] <small>[[User talk:Roman Spinner|(talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Roman Spinner|contribs)]]</small> 18:27, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
::::::Feel free to propose a new naming policy wherein articles about foreign books are titled in correspondence with later English editions. It's a fresh take! This move, though, will be based on policy-based arguments. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 18:55, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per the nom's rationale and evidence. Perusing Google Scholar, I also see that some of the authors who in the table above are identified with the English equivalent nevertheless publish works that favor the French form (e.g., [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proust_s_Binoculars/T93_AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%C3%80+la+recherche+du+temps+perdu&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Shattuck], [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/36883 Bowie], etc.). Further, since there are two different but commonly-used English translations of the title, using the original prevents us from having to arbitrarily choose between them. Whether scholarly or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAOc4g3K-g&ab_channel=RPMXLII ridiculous], English usage seems to favor the French form. [[User:Huwmanbeing|╠╣uw]]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:smaller"><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:Huwmanbeing|talk]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></span> 15:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' perennial trivial and time-wasting proposal. [[User:Xxanthippe|Xxanthippe]] ([[User talk:Xxanthippe|talk]]) 23:55, 8 December 2024 (UTC).
*:This is not a policy-based vote. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 02:34, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
:::What is it then? Please explain. [[User:Xxanthippe|Xxanthippe]] ([[User talk:Xxanthippe|talk]]) 05:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC).
::::A vote with no stated basis in naming policy. Do you have an argument based in naming policy? <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 06:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. [[WP:UE]]. [[User:Theparties|Theparties]] ([[User talk:Theparties|talk]]) 20:42, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
*:[[WP:UE]], the condensed form of [[WP:USEENGLISH]], says to follow the name used in English-language sources. As shown above, this is ''temps perdu''. <span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧁</span>[[User:Zanahary|Zanahary]]<span style="position: relative; top: -0.5em;">꧂</span> 21:46, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
*Leaning '''oppose''' per [[WP:RECOGNIZABILITY]]. ''[[User talk:Cremastra|Cremastra]]'' ‹ [[User:Cremastra|u]] — [[Special:Contribs/Cremastra|c]] › 14:16, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
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