Marcel Proust | 1871: Author
Marcel Proust - A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance Of Things Past) - was born in Paris.
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Marcel Proust (10 July 1871--18 November 1922), better known as
Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist.
It was inspired by
Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece 'Remembrance of Things Past,' or more popularly known as 'In Search of Lost Time.'
Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white sketches and caricatures on almost every page, Proust for Beginners is a guide to the life and works of French novelist
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), who is particularly well-known for the modernist classic "In Search of Lost Time".
Des lettres (rares) adressees a son pere, des manuscrits parfois inedits, des dessins, des portraits de famille : c'est l'univers intime de l'ecrivain francais,
Marcel Proust, qui sera mis aux encheres a Paris le 31 mai.
THE French writer
Marcel Proust claimed his most famous novel was inspired by the smell of a biscuit.
The Ritz Hotel Paris' fame is in part due to its famous guests, which have included Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin,
Marcel Proust and Ernest Hemmingway.
Like the prose of
Marcel Proust, Roussel's oeuvre marks the encounter of Victorian representational styles and ideas about time with those that would come to characterize modernism.
My favourite writers are Shakespeare, Jane Austen and
Marcel Proust.
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Marcel Proust, French author, 1922