Does anyone else detect a certain commonality between Proust

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Does anyone else detect a certain commonality between Proust and Melville? I refer of course to their respective masterpieces. ISOLT, of course, deals with the slow passage of everyday life, and Proust's attempt to communicate the role memory plays in our perception of the flow of time. I can't help but feel there's a certain similarity with what happens in Moby-Dick. Once Ahab's given his quarter-deck speech, we get very little of the "main plot" for the rest of the story, and Melville instead attempts to capture the slow ebb and flow of life aboard a whaling vessel. Various characters have their little experiences, their small victories and defeats, but time rolls on over all.

Maybe I'm reaching here. Does anyone else get this feeling? I also got similar sentiments reading The Book of the New Sun; I suppose that would naturally have something in common with In Search of Lost Time, given that both Proust and Wolfe are interested in memory.