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Marcel Proust

Proust in 1900

Born

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust

10 July 1871

Auteuil, France

Died

18 November 1922

Paris, France

Occupation

Novelist, essayist, critic

Notable work

In Search of Lost Time

Parent

Adrien Achille Proust Jeanne Clémence Weil

Signature

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust , known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu , published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.

Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil at the home of his great-uncle on 10 July 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. He was born during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de siècle.

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