Marcel Proust
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| Born: | July 10 1871 Auteuil, France |
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| Died: | November 18 1922 (aged 51) Paris, France |
| Occupation: | Novelist, essayist, critic |
| Genres: | modernism |
| Influences: | Saint-Simon, Brantôme, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, Henri Bergson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stendhal |
| Influenced: | Ahmet Altan, John Banville, Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Naguib Mahfouz, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Orhan Pamuk, Edmund White, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright |
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced: maʁsɛl pʁust) (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.
[change] References
- Adorno, Theodor. "Prisms." The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1967.
- Aciman, André (2004) The Proust Project. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Albaret, Céleste (Barbara Bray, trans.) 2003 Monsieur Proust. New York: The New York Review of Books
- Bernard, Anne-Marie (2002) The World of Proust, as seen by Paul Nadar. Cambridge: MIT Press
- Carter, William C. (2000) Marcel Proust: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press
- Davenport-Hines, Richard (2006) A Night at the Majestic. London: Faber and Faber ISBN 978-0-571-22009-0
- De Botton, Alain (1998) How Proust Can Change Your Life. New York: Vintage Books
- Deleuze, Gilles (2004) Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Painter, George D (1959) Marcel Proust A Biography Vols. 1 & 2. London: Chatto & Windus
- Shattuck, Roger (1963) Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in À la recherche du temps perdu. New York: Random House
- Shattuck, Roger (2000) Proust's Way: A Field Guide To In Search of Lost Time, New York: W. W. Norton
- Tadié, Jean-Yves: MARCEL PROUST: A Life. Viking, New York, 2000
- White, Edmund (1998) Marcel Proust. New York: Viking Books
[change] Other websites
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Le temps de Proust- a blog about (re)reading Proust and the associated secondary literature
- Reading Proust- A reader enjoys the new Penguin/Viking translations of In Search of Lost Time.
- Reinterpretation of Remembrance Of Things Past
- Why Proust? And Why Now? - an essay on the lasting relevance of Proust and his work
- A short Proust bibliography (bilingual)
- TempsPerdu.com- many useful links, including to online texts of Lost Time in French and English
- The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research
- Marcel Proust, a personal site in Italian
- Essay by Stephan Reimertz on Proust in Germany (in French)
- Marcel Proust's Album, Marcel Proust receives a tribute in this album of "recomposed photographs".
- Marcel Proust et l'aviation, Proust and airplanes.
[change] Online texts
- Works by Marcel Proust at Project Gutenberg French text of volumes 1-4 and Swann's Way in English translation
- University of Adelaide Library French text of volumes 1-4 and the complete novel in English translation
- Works of Marcel Proust
