Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
Proust in 1900
(photograph by Otto Wegener)
Born
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust

(1871-07-10)10 July 1871
Died18 November 1922(1922-11-18) (aged 51)
Chaillot, Paris, France
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
EducationLycée Condorcet
Occupations
Notable workIn Search of Lost Time
Parent(s)Adrien Achille Proust
Jeanne Clémence Weil
RelativesRobert Proust (brother)
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/prst/ PROOST,[1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental 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 Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Proust" Archived 22 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  2. ^ Harold Bloom, Genius, pp. 191–225.
  3. ^ "Marcel Proust". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.

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