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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/ PROOST,[1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental 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] 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 took place at the very beginning of the French Third Republic,[4] during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the Republic. Much of In Search of

Marcel Proust - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922) "Proust" redirects here. For other uses, see Proust (disambiguation) . Jeanne Clémence Weil"},"relatives":{"wt":"[[Robert Proust]] (brother)"}},"i":0}}]}'> Marcel Proust Proust in 1900 Born Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( 1871-07-10 ) 10 July 1871 Paris , France Died 18 November 1922 (1922-11-18) (aged 51) Paris, France Resting place Père Lachaise Cemetery Education Lycée Condorcet Occupations Novelist essayist critic Notable work In Search of

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