French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922)
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Marcel Proust
Proust in 1900 (photograph by Otto Wegener)
Born
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
(1871-07-10)10 July 1871
Auteuil, Paris, France
Died
18 November 1922(1922-11-18) (aged 51)
Chaillot, Paris, France
Resting place
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Education
Lycée Condorcet
Occupations
Novelist
essayist
critic
Notable work
In Search of Lost Time
Parent(s)
Adrien Achille Proust Jeanne Clémence Weil
Relatives
Robert Proust (brother)
Signature
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/PROOST,[1]French:[maʁsɛlpʁust]; 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]
^"Proust". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^Harold Bloom, Genius, pp. 191–225.
^"Marcel Proust". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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