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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 of ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Marcel Proust, French novelist who wrote 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. Learn more about Proust’s life and work.
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Aug 14, 2022 · 14 August 2022. By Cath Pound,Features correspondent. RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay. Marcel Proust's groundbreaking 1922 masterpiece In Search of Lost Time is considered daunting and...
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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Feb 8, 2023 · February 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...
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Feb 27, 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.
Oct. 9, 1967, Paris (aged 82) Notable Works: “Bernard Quesnay” “The Quest for Proust” “Whatever Gods May Be” André Maurois (born July 26, 1885, Elbeuf, France—died Oct. 9, 1967, Paris) was a French biographer, novelist, and essayist, best known for biographies that maintain the narrative interest of novels.
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