Marcel Proust (Author of Swann鈥檚 Way)

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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 脌 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鈥檚 Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 65,073 ratings — published 1913 — 2158 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 — 16,693 ratings — published 1919 — 266 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 — 13,530 ratings — published 1913 — 470 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 4.27 avg rating — 11,175 ratings — published 1920 — 703 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) 4.32 avg rating — 9,273 ratings — published 1922 — 40 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 — 7,857 ratings — published 1927 — 28 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 — 4,556 ratings — published 1925 — 33 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 Prisonni猫re 4.27 avg rating — 4,484 ratings — published 1923 — 34 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 — 3,616 ratings — published 1913 — 17 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) 4.38 avg rating — 3,269 ratings — published 1923 — 66 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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脌 la recherche du temps perdu (7 books)
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脌 la recherche du temps perdu #5 (1 book)
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C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator),

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脌 la recherche du temps perdu (1 book)
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脌 la recherche du temps perdu (2 books)
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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

40 votes, 53.3%

Pleasures and Days

12 votes, 16.0%

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

11 votes, 14.7%

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

7 votes, 9.3%

Combray (In Search of Lost Time, #1.1)

5 votes, 6.7%

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