Marcel Proust's eight-part novel, A la Recherche du Temps perdu, was published between 1913 and 1927. Unlike the solid Victorian novel, which it more than rivals in size, Proust's creation deals with the individual's fragmentary, volatile and self-conscious perception of space and time, a new theme influenced by the theories of Einstein, Freud, Darwin and Henri Bergson. Both a dissection of French society and a subjective memoir, Proust's novel had a major influence on 20th-century literature.