Albertine disparue Vol 2 (of 2)
 À la recherche du temps perdu, Tome 7

by Marcel Proust

"Albertine disparue Vol 2 (of 2)" by Marcel Proust is a novel published posthumously in 1925. This penultimate volume of "In Search of Lost Time" explores the psychology of romantic suffering and the gradual work of mourning and forgetting. After Albertine's sudden departure and tragic death, the narrator struggles to bring her back, then slowly learns to forget. His journey takes him from desperate attempts at reconciliation through encounters with past loves to a poetic sojourn in Venice, ultimately leading to the realization that both love and youth must fade.