Marcel Proust - Wikipedia Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( p r uː s t PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost
Marcel Proust | Books, In Search of Lost Time, Famous Works . . . Marcel Proust was a French novelist who wrote ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (‘In Search of Lost Time’; 1913–27), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically and allegorically It is one of the supreme achievements in modern fiction and is considered the world’s longest novel
Why the worlds most difficult novel is so rewarding - BBC Marcel Proust's groundbreaking 1922 masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered daunting and difficult by many, but has been misunderstood and is actually universally appealing, writes
Marcel Proust (Author of Swann’s Way) - Goodreads Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style
Marcel Proust (1871-1922): Life - University at Buffalo Marcel Proust: A Life provides a scrupulously researched and engaging picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed Proust's art, along with an indispensable critical reading of the work itself The result is authoritative, magisterial, and a beautiful example of the art of biography
Biography - Proust Ink Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871 in the Paris suburb of Auteuil His father, Dr Adrien Proust, was one of France's most distinguished scientists His mother, Jeanne Weil, was a well-educated woman who loved the great classic writers of the 17th century, especially Molière and Racine
Proust, Marcel (1871–1922) - Encyclopedia. com Proust, Marcel (1871–1922), French novelist Marcel Proust ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century He abandoned plot and traditional dramatic action for the vision of the first-person narrator confronting his world
Marcel Proust – Modernism Lab - Yale University Marcel Proust Born in a Paris suburb in 1871, Proust grew up in cloistered privilege His father was a celebrated physician, a self-made man who never understood his son’s dreamy indolence and suspected that his illnesses were psychosomatic
In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia Although many of Proust's close family and friends suspected that he was homosexual, Proust never admitted this It was only after his death that André Gide, in his publication of correspondence with Proust, made public Proust's homosexuality
Marcel Proust on What Writing Is - The New Yorker Proust describes it as “that reality which it is very easy for us to die without ever having known and which is, quite simply, our life ” ♦ New Yorker Favorites The Vogue model who became a