Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, he lapsed more completely into his lifelong tendency to sleep during the day and work at night. He was also plagued with severe asthma, which had troubled him intermittently since childhood, and a terror of his own death, especially in case it should come before his novel had been completed. The first volume, after some difficulty finding a publisher, came out in 1913, and Proust continued to work with an almost inhuman dedication on his masterpiece right up until his death in 1922, at the age of 51. Today he is widely recognized as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century, and À la recherche du temps perdu as one of the most dazzling and significant works of literature to be written in modern times.
Series
Books
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol
2
2019
A Vision of Paris
1980
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1
Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
1913
Jealousy
Vintage Minis
2017
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
1919
The Mysterious Correspondent
New Stories
2019
Proust, Marcel
In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7] (Book Center)
2017
Contos Completos e Outros Textos
2018
La fin de la jalousie
1896
The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
2001
L'indifferente
1896
Swann's Way
1913
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100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]
2017
Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays
1900
Combray
1913
Contre Sainte-Beuve
1968
The Lemoine Affair
1919
Unpacking My Library
Artists and Their Books
2017
The Prisoner
1923
Remembrance of Things Past
Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
1922
In Search of Lost Time
1981
Remembrance of Things Past
Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained
1927
Time Regained
1927
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922
Au bonheur de lire
Les plaisirs de la lecture
2004
Le Temps retrouvé - Première partie
1927
Days of Reading
1905
À la recherche du temps perdu, Tome I
1913
Chardin and Rembrandt
2012
Remembrance of Things Past
Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
1913
The Guermantes Way
1920
Proust on Art and Literature
1954
The Fugitive
1925
Letters to His Neighbor
2013
Letters of Marcel Proust
1949
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
2020
Remembrance Of Things Past
Vol 2
1932
Le temps retrouvé Deuxième partie
2015
Jean Santeuil
1952
Pleasures and Days
1896
Swann in Love
1913
Marcel Proust
Selected Letters 1880-1903
1984
Remembrance of Things Past
Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way
1925
Swann in Love, Deluxe Edition
2022
