A short critical essay on Marcel Proust's novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, written by the young Beckett. He discusses Proust's ideas of time, habit, memory and the changing self, and how involuntary memory can suddenly bring the past back to life.
The essay is compact, dense and personal, as much a statement of Beckett's own early concerns as a study of Proust. It is useful for readers curious about the roots of his later writing.