Published in 1923, &quot;The Captive&quot;, fifth volume of Proust&acute;s masterpiece &quot;In Search of Lost Time&quot;, is the most disturbing of them all.<br /><br />&quot;The Captive&quot; picks up where &quot;Sodome et Gomorrhe&quot; left off, with our narrator Marcel and his partner Albertine now back in Paris, having left Balbec behind. It describes a morbidly possessive love affair. Consumed by jealousy, the narrator entices his mistress, Albertine, to live with him, then keeps her almost as a prisoner, spying on her and relentlessly cross-examining her. He catches her in lie after lie, but he cannot give her up.<br />The cause of the narrator&#39;s jealousy is his fear that his mistress is attracted to women - that she is ready at any moment to slip away to a fleeting, anonymous sexual encounter.&nbsp;<br /><br />&quot;<b>In Search of Lost Time</b>&quot; is composed by seven magnificent volumes:<br />- Volume One: &quot;Swann&#39;s Way&quot;<br />- Volume Two: &quot;In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower&quot;<br />- Volume Three: &quot;The Guermantes Way&quot;<br />- Volume Four: &quot;Sodom and Gomorrah&quot;<br />- Volume Five: &quot;The Prisoner&quot;<br />- Volume Six: &quot;The Fugitive&quot;<br />- Volume Seven: &quot;Time Regained&quot;