Marcel proust biography pdf directory

French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (–)

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (PROOST;^[1]French:[maʁsɛlpʁust]; 10 July – 18 November ) 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 and He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.^[2][3]

Biography

Proust was born on 10 July at the home of his great-uncle in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement), two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War.

His birth took place at the very beginning of the French Third Republic,^&