Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced: maʁsɛl pʁust) (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.
Marcel Proust | |
|---|---|
 Proust in 1895 | |
| Born | 10 July 1871 Auteuil, Paris, France |
| Died | 18 November 1922 (aged 51) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist, critic |
| Genre | novel |
| Notable works | Remembrance of Things Past |
Proust was a homosexual.[1] He died of pneumonia.
References
change- ↑ "Booksfactory". Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
- Adorno, Theodor. "Prisms." The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1967.
- Aciman, André (2004) The Proust Project. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Albaret, Céleste (Barbara Bray, trans.) 2003 Monsieur Proust. New York: The New York Review of Books
- Bernard, Anne-Marie (2002) The World of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadar. Cambridge: MIT Press
- Carter, William C. (2000) Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press
- Davenport-Hines, Richard (2006) A Night at the Majestic. London: Faber and Faber ISBN 978-0-571-22009-0
- De Botton, Alain (1998) How Proust Can Change Your Life. New York: Vintage Books
- Deleuze, Gilles (2004) Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Painter, George D (1959) Marcel Proust A Biography Vols. 1 & 2. London: Chatto & Windus
- Shattuck, Roger (1963) Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in À la recherche du temps perdu. New York: Random House
- Shattuck, Roger (2000) Proust's Way: A Field Guide To In Search of Lost Time, New York: W. W. Norton
- Tadié, Jean-Yves: MARCEL PROUST: A Life. Viking, New York, 2000
- White, Edmund (1998) Marcel Proust. New York: Viking Books
Online texts
change- Works by Marcel Proust at Project Gutenberg French text of volumes 1-4 and Swann's Way in English translation
- University of Adelaide Library Archived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine French text of volumes 1-4 and the complete novel in English translation
- Works of Marcel Proust Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
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