Marcel Proust | |
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Born | Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust 10 July 1871 |
Died | 18 November 1922 | (aged 51)
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Education | Lycée Condorcet |
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Notable work | In Search of Lost Time |
Parent(s) | Adrien Achille Proust Jeanne Clémence Weil |
Relatives | Robert Proust (brother) |
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/ PROOST,[1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 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]