Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced: maʁsɛl pʁust) (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.
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Born | Auteuil, Paris, France | 10 July 1871
Died | 18 November 1922 Paris, France | (aged 51)
Occupation | Novelist, essayist, critic |
Genre | novel |
Notable works | Remembrance of Things Past |
Proust was a homosexual.[1] He died of pneumonia.
Marcel Proust Media
Marcel Proust (seated), Robert de Flers (left), and Lucien Daudet (right), c. 1894
Jean Béraud, La Sortie du lycée Condorcet
Robert de Montesquiou, the main inspiration for Baron de Charlus in À la recherche du temps perdu
Grave of Marcel Proust at Père Lachaise Cemetery
References
- ↑ "Booksfactory". Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
- Adorno, Theodor. "Prisms." The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1967.
- Aciman, André (2004) The Proust Project. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Albaret, Céleste (Barbara Bray, trans.) 2003 Monsieur Proust. New York: The New York Review of Books
- Bernard, Anne-Marie (2002) The World of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadar. Cambridge: MIT Press
- Carter, William C. (2000) Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press
- Davenport-Hines, Richard (2006) A Night at the Majestic. London: Faber and Faber ISBN 978-0-571-22009-0
- De Botton, Alain (1998) How Proust Can Change Your Life. New York: Vintage Books
- Deleuze, Gilles (2004) Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Painter, George D (1959) Marcel Proust A Biography Vols. 1 & 2. London: Chatto & Windus
- Shattuck, Roger (1963) Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in À la recherche du temps perdu. New York: Random House
- Shattuck, Roger (2000) Proust's Way: A Field Guide To In Search of Lost Time, New York: W. W. Norton
- Tadié, Jean-Yves: MARCEL PROUST: A Life. Viking, New York, 2000
- White, Edmund (1998) Marcel Proust. New York: Viking Books
Online texts
- Works by Marcel Proust at Project Gutenberg French text of volumes 1-4 and Swann's Way in English translation
- University of Adelaide Library Archived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine French text of volumes 1-4 and the complete novel in English translation
- Works of Marcel Proust Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine