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Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
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culture · French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922) · novelist · essayist · writer · literary critic · poet · prose writer · also Marcel Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugéne Marcel Proust, Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust, Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugéne-Marcel Proust, Bernard d'Algouvres
Born 10 July 1871 · Died 18 November 1922 · Q7199
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2026· 9 entries
siempre.mx: Acto de libertad creativa, Marcel Proust y las artes
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Albertine | French Novel, Proust’s Work, Narrator’s Love Interest
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Marcel Proust - French Novelist, Remembrance of Things Past, In Search of Lost Time
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ArchDaily: Galería de LA CASA DEL TIEMPO para Marcel Proust - 1
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Yahoo: Marcel Proust's Insightful Quote on Gratitude and Personal Growth Explained
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The Guardian: Funny and full of sex: why you should read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time | Letters
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Public attention spiked: 5,180 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 1,507, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Funny and full of sex: why you should read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time | Letters” (The Guardian).
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: The French rose from Manchester: in search of Proust’s forgotten muse
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IndieWire: Lucy Boynton on Marcel Proust Jokes Being Cut from ‘Barbie’: It’s a ‘Heartbreaker’ That Audiences Are ‘Losing Touch with That History’
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Best of 2023: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote – podcast
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The Guardian: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote – podcast
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The Guardian: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote | Elif Batuman
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2022· 4 entries
The Guardian: Where to start with: Marcel Proust
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The Real News Network: Marcel Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time,’ 100 years later
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The Guardian: Reading Proust aloud: ‘How can it be that deeply flawed and terrible humans have the capacity to create?’
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The Guardian: In search of lost toast: Paris show reveals origins of Proust’s madeleines
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: From the archive: celebrating the centenary of Marcel Proust, 1971
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The Guardian: Unseen work by Proust announced as ‘thunderclap’ by French publisher
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2018· 1 entry
Forbes: Multimedia Production Of Marcel Proust's 'In Search Of Lost Time' To Have NY Debut Tonight At FIAF
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2013· 2 entries
Forbes: Dead Technology Commentators: Novelist Marcel Proust Takes On the Telephone
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The Daily Beast: Marcel Proust’s First Poem, ‘Pederasty,’ Shows Him Struggling With Homosexuality
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1971· 1 entry
On the occasion of the Proust centenary celebrations
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1952· 1 entry
And titled Jean Santeuil by his posthumous editors
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for Swann in Love (1950).
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1922· 7 entries
Died 1922-11-18.
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Aged 51, and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
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“On devient moral dès qu’on est malheureux. (fr.)”
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“On n’aime plus personne dès qu’on aime. (fr.)”
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“Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. (fr.)”
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Shortly before Proust's death
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1920).
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1919· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Goncourt for In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919).
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When representatives of the right-wing Action Française published a manifesto upholding French colonialism and the Catholic Church as the embodiment of civilised values, Proust rejected their nationalistic and chauvinist
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1909· 1 entry
When Proust was 38 years old, À la recherche du temps perdu consists of seven volumes totaling around 3,200 pages (about 4,300 in The Modern Library's translation)
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1908· 1 entry
Proust began work on À la recherche du temps perdu when he was 38
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1906· 1 entry
By Aristide Briand, whom he described as "admirable"
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1897· 1 entry
Fought a duel with writer Jean Lorrain, who publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with his lover Lucien Daudet; both duellists survived
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1896· 1 entry
Les plaisirs et les jours, a compendium of many of these early pieces, was published
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1895· 1 entry
Proust spent several years reading Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Ruskin
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1892· 1 entry
Was involved in founding a literary review called Le Banquet (also the French title of Plato's Symposium), and throughout the next several years Proust published small pieces regularly in this journal and in the prest
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1882· 1 entry
At the age of eleven, Proust became a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet; however, his education was disrupted by his illness
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1871· 1 entry
Born 1871-07-10.
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