Marcel Proust
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| '''Marcel Proust''' ([[July 10]], [[1871]] – [[November 18]], [[1922]]) was a [[France|French]] [[intellectual]], [[novel|novelist]], [[essayist]] and [[critic]], best known as the author of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' (in [[French language|French]] ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', also titled ''Remembrance of Things Past'' in its original edition), a monumental work of [[twentieth-century fiction]] published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927. | '''Marcel Proust''' ([[July 10]], [[1871]] – [[November 18]], [[1922]]) was a [[France|French]] [[intellectual]], [[novel|novelist]], [[essayist]] and [[critic]], best known as the author of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' (in [[French language|French]] ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', also titled ''Remembrance of Things Past'' in its original edition), a monumental work of [[twentieth-century fiction]] published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927. | ||
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Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also titled Remembrance of Things Past in its original edition), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.
See also
- Veronal
- Neurasthenia
- Involuntary memory and the Madeleine
- "Proust", an essay by Samuel Beckett
- Proust Questionnaire
