Proust's father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent French pathologist and epidemiologist, who studied cholera in Europe and Asia. He wrote numerous articles and books on medicine and …

Nov 14, 2025 · Marcel Proust was a French novelist who wrote ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (‘In Search of Lost Time’; 1913–27), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told …

Aug 18, 2025 · For his whole life, Proust himself lived in Paris, the undisputed cultural, economic, and political capital of Europe in the 19th century, and grew up in the wealthy and …

Although she was herself Jewish, following custom for mixed marriages, Mme Proust raised her children as Catholics. When Proust was nine, he suffered the first attack of the asthma that …

Marcel Proust books and biography - French classical authors Perhaps best known for his work “In search of Lost Time” ("À la recherche du temps perdu"), this French novelist, essayist and …

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life …

Of all the Modernists, Proust is perhaps the most quintessentially modern. Primarily concerned with the exploration of memory, Proust pioneered a "stream of consciousness" style of prose …

Marcel Proust ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He abandoned plot and traditional dramatic action for the vision of the first-person narrator confronting his world.

In his own lifetime the merit of Proust’s novel was debated by those who perceived its brilliance and those who claimed it was unreadable. Today it is recognized as one of the major literary …

French novelist Marcel Proust was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His books abandoned plot and dramatic action in favor of the narrator's descriptions of his experiences in …