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  <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[French novelist, best known for &lt;i&gt;À la recherche du temps perdu&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Remembrance of Things Past&lt;/i&gt;), his autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style. The work collected pieces from Proust's childhood, observations of aristocratic life-style, gossip, recollections of the closed world, where the author never found his place. The key scene is when a madeleine cake (a small, rich cookie-like pastry) enables the narrator to experience the past completely as a simultaneous part of his present existence:&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;And suddenly the memory revealed itself: The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Auteuil</hometown>  <born_at>07/10/1871</born_at>  <died_at>11/08/1922</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time: Book 1)(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)]]></title>
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  <published>1913</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way &amp; Within a Budding Grove]]></title>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past): Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[D.J. Enright]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[In Search of Lost Time, Volume V: The Captive &amp; The Fugitive]]></title>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way &amp; Cities of the Plain]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III -The Captive, The Fugitive &amp; Time Regained]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></name>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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