Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): In one poem, this author refers to Van Dyck as the prince of tranquil gestures. One of this man's creations cannot listen to Wagner without the odour of burning cinnnamon, Oranthe, who appears in Fragments from Italian Comedy. In one of this man's short stories, Laurence becomes the object of Violante's affection, while another describes the violinist Baldassare Silvande. This author also created a character who meets the artist Elstir in Combray and sees his friend Robert de Saint-Loup marry his former childhood love Gilberte. That character narrates a novel where Madame Verdurin marries the Prince of Guermantes. For 10 points, name this author of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower and Sodom and Gomorrah, sections of his magnum opus In Search of Lost Time.
Output (English): Literature