The idea of the author to write this text was born while reading the novel of the French literature classic Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time" (seven parts of the novel were published in 1913-1927). The issue of time is the main and central theme in creative work of exile artists too. Making an experiment, the author strives to check in the article whether it is possible to form the analysis method of visual art from the verbal story of the aforementioned novel.