description: This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his one massive work. It also shows the yearning lonely boy, the brilliant wit - and the miserably closeted homosexual.
language: English
title: Proust
titlecomplete: Proust
genres: France, Biography, French Literature, LGBT, Nonfiction, Literature, Biography Memoir, Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 974
publisher: Phoenix Paperbacks