"Reality is only formed in memory": reading of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

For the French writer Marcel Proust, art in general, and more specifically literature, its main function to help us incorporate the past into our present experiences, allowing us to associate what we have lived previously to our current sensations and experiences, and thereby facilitating our reaching the essential reality, the reality that goes beyond the simple immediate events and the unbearable banality in which the demands and urgencies of everyday life tend to submerge us.