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Marcel Proust

Born

in Auteuil, France

July 10, 1871

Died

November 18, 1922

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Pierre Loti, Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, Henri Bergson, Charles Bau ...more

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.

Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out, ...more

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Marcel Proust’s books

Average rating: 4.19 · 153,344 ratings · 14,224 reviews · 1,922 distinct works • Similar authors

	Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 58,173 ratings — published 1913 — 1882 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (Editor), James Grieve (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 15,070 ratings — published 1919 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 12,668 ratings — published 1927 — 397 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Mark Treharne (Editor), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 10,161 ratings — published 1920 — 729 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, John Sturrock (Editor), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 8,440 ratings — published 1922 — 548 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Regained by Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin (Translator), Andreas Mayor (Translator), D.J. Enright (Revisions) 4.51 avg rating — 7,185 ratings — published 1927 — 437 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La fugitiva 4.28 avg rating — 4,008 ratings — published 1925 — 360 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Prisonnière 4.26 avg rating — 4,022 ratings — published 1923 — 408 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 3,421 ratings — published 1913 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 3,048 ratings — published 1923	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Marcel Proust

À la recherche du temps perdu (7 books)
by

Marcel Proust,

Terence Kilmartin (Translator),

Andreas Mayor (Translator),

D.J. Enright (Revisions)

4.25 avg rating — 115,607 ratings

À la recherche du temps perdu (2 books)
by

Marcel Proust,

Roza Hakmen (Translator)

4.75 avg rating — 48 ratings

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