The Study of Connection of Literature with Painting in Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” Novel with an Emphasis on “Swann’s Way” Volume

Whenever it has discussed about combining literature with painting we have observed simultaneous attendance of literature and painting side by side; for instance, in Persian Miniatures or illustrating literary books. But, the combination that Marcel Proust presents by both is different. All over the “In Search of Lost Time” novel is full of painting though there isn’t any painting in that. He combines literature with famous paintings and refers the text to them and creates intertextual relationship between text and painting in order to take control reader’s faculty of imagining, without bringing any picture in his novel. Conclusions show that Marcel Proust tends to close reader’s free imagination path when he is reading the novel because Proust proposes reader images the same thing in his mind that Proust wanted to. This article is descriptive-analytical research by nature and method and has based on Laurent Jenny’s thoughts about Intertextuality in particular “Collage Intertextual”.