About the book: 2017 / On the novel "Under the Canopy of Girls in Bloom" - one of the books in the series "In Search of Lost Time" - Proust worked painstakingly 10 years, from 1909 to 1919, and it was this book that brought him both success and fame as an unsurpassed stylist. In essence, the plot of the novel is the transformation of a boy into a young man, his first true friendship, his first love, his first steps in secular society, his first connections with women – a completely traditional French plot of “education of feelings.” However, the plot outline only frames the true merits of this work - the indescribable beauty of Proust’s language, the refinement of his style and his legendary jewelry attention to detail..