Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic and essayist best known for A la recherche du temps perdu, translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totaling around 1.25 million words, considered one of the most influential works of the twentieth century. Born to a wealthy Parisian family, he struggled from childhood with severe asthma and moved in elite Parisian society, experiences that supplied material for his novel; he began writing it in 1908 and lived to see the first volume published in 1913, with the remaining volumes edited and published posthumously by his brother after his death from pneumonia in 1922. The novel helped pioneer the stream of consciousness technique and is regarded as a landmark of literary modernism for its meditation on memory, desire, artistic creativity and class. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardGrand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century, 1950. 1 AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour, 1920. 1 Classification
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10 July 1871 - 18 November 1922
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic and essayist best known for A la recherche du temps perdu, translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totaling around 1.25 million words, considered one of the most influential works of the twentieth century.
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( 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 and totals around 1.25 million words.
Award: Prix Goncourt
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( 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 and totals around 1.25 million words.
Award: Knight of the Legion of Honour
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( 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 and totals around 1.25 million words.
Award: Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( 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 and totals around 1.25 million words.
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Wikimedia FoundationWorks Attributed: In Search of Lost Time, Lead section, authorshipQuote, Works Attributed: In Search of Lost Time, Lead section, authorship
In Search of Lost Time...is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust.
In Search of Lost Time (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWorks Attributed: Swann's Way, Lead section, on the first volume's publicationQuote, Works Attributed: Swann's Way, Lead section, on the first volume's publication
Swann's Way (French: Du cote de chez Swann) is the first of the seven volumes making up Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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