The first translation of painter and writer Jzef Czapskis inspiring lectures on Proust first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp and with nothing but memory to go on the Polish artist and soldier Jzef Czapski brought Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures Czapski described the arc and import of Prousts masterpiece sketched major and m