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'''Marcel Proust''' was a [[French]] [[novelist]], famous for one work, the largely autobiographical ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', which runs to over 3000 pages.
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The French original ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' was published over a number of years in eight volumes.  It was soon translated into English by [[C. K. Scott Moncrieff]] under the title ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and became, as [[Cyril Connolly]] remarked, almost a work of English literature itself.  A new English version, a reworking by [[Terence Kilmartin]] of Moncrieff's, was published in 1981.
'''Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust''' (born 10 July 1871, died 18 November 1922) was a [[French]] writer, famous for one work, the largely autobiographical [[novel]] ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', which runs to over 3000 pages.


==Original French publication==
The French original ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' was published over a number of years (1913-27) in seven volumes.  It was simultaneously translated into English by [[C. K. Scott Moncrieff]] with the title ''Remembrance of Things Past'' (after [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], Sonnet 30) and became, as [[Cyril Connolly]] remarked, almost a work of English literature itself.  A new English version, a reworking of Moncrieff's by [[Terence Kilmartin]], with the title closer to the French original, was published in 1981.
* ''Du côté de chez Swann'', Grasset, 1913 (''[[Swann's Way]]'')
** Part 1: ''Combray''
** Part 2: ''Un amour de Swann'' (''Swann in Love'')
** Part 3: ''Noms de pays: le nom'' (''Place Names: The Name'')
* ''À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'', NRF, 1919, [[Goncourt Prize]] (''[[Within a Budding Grove]]'')
** Part 1: ''Autour de Mme Swann'' (''Madame Swann at Home'')
** Part 2: ''Noms de pays : le pays'' (''Place Names: The Place'')


* ''Le Côté de Guermantes I et II'', NRF, 1921-1922 (''[[The Guermantes Way]]'')
Proust's style is characterised by lengthy paragraphs containing very long sentences with many subordinate clauses. In the anglophone world, interest in his work was rekindled in 1997, with the publication of [[Alain de Botton's]] ''[[How Proust Can Change Your Life]]''.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]
* ''Sodome et Gomorrhe I et II'', NRF, 1922-1923 (''[[Cities of the Plain]]'')
* ''La Prisonnière'', NRF, 1923 (''[[The Captive]]'')
* ''Albertine disparue'' (''La Fugitive''), 1925  (''[[The Sweet Cheat Gone]]'')
* ''Le Temps retrouvé'', NRF, 1927 (''[[Time Regained]]'')

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (born 10 July 1871, died 18 November 1922) was a French writer, famous for one work, the largely autobiographical novel In Search of Lost Time, which runs to over 3000 pages.

The French original À la recherche du temps perdu was published over a number of years (1913-27) in seven volumes. It was simultaneously translated into English by C. K. Scott Moncrieff with the title Remembrance of Things Past (after Shakespeare, Sonnet 30) and became, as Cyril Connolly remarked, almost a work of English literature itself. A new English version, a reworking of Moncrieff's by Terence Kilmartin, with the title closer to the French original, was published in 1981.

Proust's style is characterised by lengthy paragraphs containing very long sentences with many subordinate clauses. In the anglophone world, interest in his work was rekindled in 1997, with the publication of Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life.