In Memory of the Destroyed Churches

The critical articles of Marcel Proust on art, collected by himself in the book «In Memory of the Destroyed Churches», are significantly a response from the writer to the theories of John Ruskin, whose texts he translated into French. Proust devotes considerable space to the functions of the museum, observation of art, the concept of landmark, and more. In these works, Proust's aesthetic positions are detailed and deeply articulated, which later found expression in the novel cycle «In Search of Lost Time».