Marcel Proust

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French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.

Milestones

10 July 1871

MP , French novelist, was born in Auteuil, a suburb of Paris.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press.
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16 November 1913

MP published (at his own expense after many rejections) Du côté de chez Swann, the first novel of his ground-breaking serial Künstlerroman, A la recherche du temps perdu, which he continued to write until his death.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
16 November 2010
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press.
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Hamon, Philippe, and Denis Roger-Vasselin, editors. Le Robert des grands écrivains de langue française. Dictionaires Le Robert.

18 November 1922

MP , French novelist, died in Paris.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press.
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1927

Le temps retrouvé, the seventh and final novel of MP 's 3,000-page opus, A la recherche du temps perdu, was published five years after his death.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press.
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France, Peter, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press.

Biography

A Privileged Parisian Life

10 July 1871

MP , French novelist, was born in Auteuil, a suburb of Paris.
Bales, Richard, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Cambridge University Press.
xix

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