Marcel Proust (full name Valentin Louis Georges Eugi¨ne Marcel Proust) was born on July 10, 1871 in Auteuil, France as son of the doctor Achille-Adrien Proust and Jeanne Clemence Weil. He was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of "À la recherche du temps perdu" (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.

Biography and Career :

In 1882 he attended the High School Condorcet and fell in love with Marie Benerdaky. In 1889 is incorporated in the Infantery Regiment no 76 from Orleans.
He went to the law School between 1820-1822 when he also met Anatole France who would later became his friend.

In 1826 Marcel Proust published his first volume "The Pleasures and The Days".
Two years after his mother's death he started to work at his big novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time".

After the publishing of his first novel from the cycle, "Swan", was refused initially, he paid from his own pocket to do it. In 1918 after 5 years it was published the second novel: "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" and with this book he won the Goncourt Prize. In 1920 appeared "The Guermantes Way" and in 1922 "Sodoma and Gomora".

Marcel Proust ended-up his life on the 18th of November 1922 by pneumonia disease.

Robert Proust assumed himself to publish the rest of his novels of the cycle and in 1923 appeared "The Captive" and in 1925 "The Fugitive".

In 1927 was published the last novel of the cycle "The Past Recaptured".
In 1952 Bernard De Fallois discovered and published the abandoned novel "Jean Santeuil".

Important Writings :

1913 "Swan" ("The Way by Swann's")
1918 "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower"
1920 "The Guermantes Way" ("Within a Budding Grove")
1922 "Sodom and Gomorrah" ("Cities of The Plain")
1923 "The Prisoner" ("The Captive")
1925 "The Fugitive" ("Albertine Gone")
1927 "The Past recaptured" ("Time Regained", "Finding Time Again")

Quotes :

- "Love is space and time measured by the heart."
- "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 26 September '10

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