Proust's father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent French pathologist and epidemiologist, who studied cholera in Europe and Asia. He wrote numerous articles and books on medicine and hygiene.

Dec 26, 2025 · Marcel Proust was a French novelist who wrote ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (‘In Search of Lost Time’; 1913–27), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically …

Aug 18, 2025 · For his whole life, Proust himself lived in Paris, the undisputed cultural, economic, and political capital of Europe in the 19th century, and grew up in the wealthy and sophisticated milieu of …

Although she was herself Jewish, following custom for mixed marriages, Mme Proust raised her children as Catholics. When Proust was nine, he suffered the first attack of the asthma that would constrict …

Marcel Proust books and biography - French classical authors Perhaps best known for his work “In search of Lost Time” ("À la recherche du temps perdu"), this French novelist, essayist and critic was …

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 …

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one …

Marcel Proust ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He abandoned plot and traditional dramatic action for the vision of the first-person narrator confronting his world.

Of all the Modernists, Proust is perhaps the most quintessentially modern. Primarily concerned with the exploration of memory, Proust pioneered a "stream of consciousness" style of prose that followed …

Aug 16, 2022 · News about Marcel Proust, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.