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Marcel Proust

Born

in Auteuil, France

July 10, 1871

Died

November 18, 1922

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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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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	Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 68,298 ratings — published 1913 — 434 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 — 17,818 ratings — published 1919 — 945 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) 4.34 avg rating — 14,081 ratings — published 1913 — 476 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 (Translator), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 11,883 ratings — published 1920 — 706 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 (Translator), Christopher Prendergast (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 9,886 ratings — published 1922 — 680 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 — 8,340 ratings — published 1927 — 12 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 4.29 avg rating — 4,949 ratings — published 1925 — 508 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 4.27 avg rating — 4,898 ratings — published 1923 — 13 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) 4.28 avg rating — 3,699 ratings — published 1913 — 10 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
	Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2) by Marcel Proust, Albert Sonnenfeld 3.86 avg rating — 3,980 ratings — published 1913 — 232 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

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À la recherche du temps perdu (7 books)
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Marcel Proust,

Terence Kilmartin (Translator),

Andreas Mayor (Translator),

D.J. Enright (Revisions)

4.26 avg rating — 140,298 ratings

À la recherche du temps perdu (1 book)
by

Marcel Proust,

Albert Sonnenfeld

3.86 avg rating — 3,978 ratings

À la recherche du temps perdu #5 (1 book)
by

Marcel Proust,

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator),

Terence Kilmartin (Translator),

D.J. Enright (Revision)

4.38 avg rating — 3,385 ratings

À la recherche du temps perdu (2 books)
by

Marcel Proust,

Roza Hakmen (Translator)

4.73 avg rating — 62 ratings

잃어버린 시간을 찾아서 (13 books)
by

Marcel Proust,

마르셀 프루스트,

김희영 (illustrator)

3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings

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