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Marcel Proust

Also known as Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugéne Marcel Proust, Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugéne-Marcel Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust, Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugene-Marcel Proust, Bernard d'Algouvres, Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who lived from 1871 to 1922 and is considered one of the most important literary figures of the modern era. His detailed explorations of memory, consciousness, and human experience fundamentally changed how literature could represent the inner life of characters.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 10 July 1871
Died: 18 November 1922
Works: 1157

Top works

La prisonnière
The sweet cheat gone
A la recherche du temps perdu
Cahier I-XX
Du côté de chez Swann [II] Un amour de Swann. Fragments autographes [et dactylographie. ca. 1909-12]

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1871-07-10
Active to: 1922-11-18

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Listeners: 748
Total plays: 11,541

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Quotes

“A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.”
“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”
“[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.”
“Même au point de vue des plus insignifiantes choses de la vie, nous ne sommes pas un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde et dont chacun n'a qu'à aller prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.”
“Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin.”
“Peut-être n’eût-elle pas pensé que le mal fût un état si rare, si extraordinaire, si dépaysant, où il était si reposant d’émigrer, si elle avait su discerner en elle, comme en tout le monde, cette indifférence aux souffrances qu’on cause et qui, quelques autres noms qu’on lui donne, est la forme terrible et permanente de la cruauté.”

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date of birth: 1871-07-10
date of death: 1922-11-18
Commons category: Marcel Proust
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birth name: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
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name in native language: Marcel Proust
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Works in European collections

30 objects attributed to Marcel Proust, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Marcel Proust In search of lost time. IV-V The side of Guermantes I. Follow-up on Mrs. de Guermantes and the Faubourg Saint-Germain.

Marcel Proust In search of lost time. VI-VII On Swann’s side. VI Set of fragments for “Combray.”

Marcel Proust In search of lost time. IX-X Sodom and Gomorrah II. X Second stay in Balbec. On the cover, label with the inscription “[Second part of the blast episode]. Book n ° IV.”

Marcel Proust In search of lost time. IV-V The side of Guermantes I. Follow-up on Mrs. de Guermantes and the Faubourg Saint-Germain.

Marcel Proust In search of lost time. VI-VII On Swann’s side. VI Set of fragments for “Combray.”

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/ PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), 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 twentieth century.

Proust was born in the Auteuil quarter of Paris, to a wealthy bourgeois family. His father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist who studied cholera. His mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, was from a prosperous Jewish family. Proust was raised in his father's Catholic faith. From a young age, he struggled with severe asthma attacks which caused him to have a disrupted education. As a young man, Proust cultivated interests in literature and writing while moving in elite Parisian high society salons frequented by aristocrats and the upper bourgeoisie. These social connections provided inspiration and material for his later novel. His first works, including the collection of stories Les plaisirs et les jours, were published in the 1890s to little public success.