ABSTRACT
Pinter’s fascination with the relation between time past and present culminates in À la Recherche du Temps Perdu: The Proust Screenplay, adapted from the novel by Marcel Proust, and written in 1972 with the collaboration of Joseph Losey and Barbara Bray. The screenplay dramatizes a distillation of the entire seven-volume Proust novel. Like Beckett’s slender monograph Proust, it relives for a reader the major experience of the novel, a sensitive young man’s entrance into
love and a society he outgrows and transcends but sets out through writing to recapture as the memorable center of his life. From the love affairs to the societal sparring matches, each beat remains infused with the Pinter tension of the grand gesture toward power.
