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Marcel Proust - Wikipedia
He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. [2][3] Proust was born in the Auteuil quarter of Paris, to a wealthy bourgeois family. His father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist who studied cholera.
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 world's most difficult novel is so rewarding - BBC
This year marks the centenary of both the death of Marcel Proust and the publication in English of the first volume of his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time.
Life - Marcel Proust (1871-1922) - Research Guides at ...
Marcel Proust was arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This fascinating, definitive biography by the premier world authority on Proust redefines the way we look at both the artist and the man.
Marcel Proust – Modernism Lab - Yale University
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.
Marcel Proust books and biography - French classical authors
Perhaps best known for his work “In search of Lost Time” ("À la recherche du temps perdu"), this French novelist, essayist and critic was arguably one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century France.
Proust, Marcel (1871–1922) - Encyclopedia.com
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 was born to wealthy bourgeois parents on July 10, 1871, in Auteuil, a suburb of Paris.
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