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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the 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 ...
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers: "Marcel Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'", a 1988 episode by Nigel Wattis starring Roger Rees. À la recherche du temps perdu (2011) by Nina Companéez, a four-hour, two-part French TV movie that covers all seven volumes. Stage. Proust ou les intermittences du coeur, a ballet by Roland Petit.
Marcel Proust was the first person to coin the term involuntary memory, in his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past). Proust did not have any psychological background, and worked primarily as a writer.
He began to publish his studies on Proust in 1959. He edited the 1987-1989 four-volume Pléiade edition of In Search of Lost Time , which includes sketches and variants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He published his biography of Proust in 1996 [ 1 ] (English translation published in 2000 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] ).
His two-volume biography of Proust was published in 1959 and 1965. According to Miron Grindea, this was "rightly greeted as one of the great achievements in literary history", [2] and it is still widely considered to be one of the finest literary biographies in the English language. [3] Its second volume won the Duff Cooper Prize. [1]
For example, À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and Artamène by Madeleine de Scudéry (and/or) Georges de Scudéry, both titles which span over several volumes, are regarded by some sources as the longest novels ever written. [7] Single-volume books with page counts exceeding 2,000 pages exist for a plethora of different reasons.
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff MC (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past.
Céleste Albaret (née Gineste; 17 May 1891 – 25 April 1984) was a country woman who moved to Paris in 1913 when she married the taxi driver Odilon Albaret; she is best known for being the writer and essayist Marcel Proust's housekeeper and secretary.