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Marcel Proust

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Born: July 09 1871

Died: 1717 11 19221922

French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu , a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.

Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51.

Today he is widely recognised as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.

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Marcel Proust

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Books from Marcel Proust

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

The Guermantes Way

Sodom and Gomorrah

Time Regained

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

The Captive & The Fugitive

Swann’s Way

La Prisonnière

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel

À la recherche du temps perdu

Madame de Breyves melankoliska sommar

Okuma Üzerine

Combray

Un amore di Swann

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Within A Budding Grove, Part 1

Combray

Letters of Marcel Proust

Sodome et Gomorrhe II

Pleasures and Regrets