Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced: maʁsɛl pʁust) (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.

Proust was a homosexual. He died of pneumonia.

 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 
 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

 Online texts 
  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 

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