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Biography

(Auteuil, 10 July 1871 – Paris, 18 November 1922)

Marcel Proust was born to bourgeois parents living in Paris. His father was a doctor and his mother came from a rich and cultured Jewish family. Beginning in his childhood and continuing throughout his life, Proust suffered from chronic asthma attacks.

His literary talent became evident during his high school (lycée) years. He began to frequent salons such as that of Mme Arman, a friend of Anatole France. Under the patronage of the latter, Proust published in 1896 his first book, Les Plaisirs et les Jours, a collection of short stories, essays and poems. It was not very successful.

Proust had begun in autumn 1895 a novel which he later abandoned in autumn 1899 and never finished. It was finally published in 1952 as Jean Santeuil.

After this second setback, Proust devoted several years to translating and annotating the works of the English art historian John Ruskin. He published a number of articles on Ruskin, as well as two translations: La Bible d’Amiens in 1904 and Sésame et les Lys in 1906. The prefaces to these e

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Marcel Proust: A Biography

April 7, 2008

For about 30 years I made bi-annual, direct assaults on Mt. Proust, you know, his monumental novel, "In Search of Lost Time." Over that span of yearsI never achieved the summit. I loved the language, as lush as any human being ever formulated, but I couldn't get beyond two or three hundred pages because I simply couldn't see the point. I came to feel, again and again, as his first English publisher felt, "Why does the man require 50 pages to tell us he turned over in bed?" What after all was the point of all this beauty?
So at long last I decided that I might try another path. (It appears that I'm educable after all.) I decided to read every biography of the Proust available to me in English, and I did - all seven or eight of them, one after the other without interruption. I won't say what I learned, but I will say that it was sufficient to lend an understanding of the purpose of Prousts's fiction, its function in his life. After reading the last of his biographies on my shelf, I picked up Proust's novel and read all 3000 pages one after

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Marcel Proust

French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922)

"Proust" redirects here. For other uses, see Proust (disambiguation).

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (PROOST;^[1]French:[maʁsɛlpʁust]; 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 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.^[2]^[3]

Biography

Proust was born on 10 July 1871 at the home of his great-uncle in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement), two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. His birth coincided with the beginning of the French Third Republic,^[4] during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris