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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


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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Average rating: 4.19 · 186,619 ratings · 19,404 reviews · 2,381 distinct works • Similar authors
Swann’s Way (In Search of L...
4.16 avg rating — 71,829 ratings — published 1913 — 895 editions
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In the Shadow of Young Girl...
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4.39 avg rating — 19,064 ratings — published 1919 — 5 editions
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In Search of Lost Time
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4.34 avg rating — 14,625 ratings — published 1913 — 19 editions
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The Guermantes Way
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4.26 avg rating — 12,676 ratings — published 1920 — 28 editions
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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4.32 avg rating — 10,514 ratings — published 1922 — 26 editions
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Time Regained
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4.52 avg rating — 8,768 ratings — published 1927 — 518 editions
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La Prisonnière
4.27 avg rating — 5,347 ratings — published 1923 — 59 editions
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La fugitiva
4.29 avg rating — 5,310 ratings — published 1925 — 487 editions
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4.28 avg rating — 3,996 ratings — published 1913 — 37 editions
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Un amour de Swann (À la rec...
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust
tags: gratitude, happiness
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust
tags: discovery, travel
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“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
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