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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 ...
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 ] ).
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.
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]
The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, and often used by modern interviewers. [ 1 ] Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album —a form of parlor game popular among Victorians. [ 2 ]
She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. [2] She herself held a salon where she received high society in her hôtel particulier on the Rue de Monceau. Lemaire exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. [3]
Proust and Signs (French: Marcel Proust et les signes) is a book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in which the author explores the system of signs within the work of the celebrated French novelist Marcel Proust. It was first published in 1964; its second edition (1972) added an eighth concluding chapter ("L'Image de la pensée" or "The Image ...
Jean Santeuil (French: [ʒɑ̃ sɑ̃tœj]) is an unfinished novel written by Marcel Proust.It was written between 1896 and 1900, and published after the author's death. The first French edition was published in 1952 by Gallimard.