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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST, 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 ...
May 21, 2024 · Marcel Proust (born July 10, 1871, Auteuil, near Paris, France—died November 18, 1922, Paris) was a French novelist, author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically and allegorically.
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Aug 15, 2022 · 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...
In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
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Jul 11, 2016 · A biographer of Proust makes the case for his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, a novel that explores love, art, time, and memory. He praises Proust's style, themes, characters, and influence on other writers and artists.
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May 21, 2024 · In Search of Lost Time, novel in seven parts by Marcel Proust, published in French as À la recherche du temps perdu from 1913 to 1927. The novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth. It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th century.
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Feb 8, 2023 · Marcel Proust writes, with only the faintest irony, that “the only life in consequence which can be said to be really lived—is literature.” Photograph from Alamy. Proust died at fifty-one, in...