Known AS: Marcel Proust
Nickname: Didn't have Nickname
Father: Adrien Proust (physician, Roman Catholic)
Mother: Jeanne Clémence Weil (Jewish)
Date of Birth: 10 July 1871
Birth Place: Auteuil, France
Date of Death: 18 November 1922 (aged 51)
Death Place: Paris, France
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Remains: Buried, Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Lycée Condorcet, University of Sorbonne
Occupation:Novelist, Essayist, Critic
Military Service: (1889-90)
Nationality: France
Influenced By: Saint-Simon, Balzac, Baudelaire, Bergson, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Schopenhauer
Influenced: John Banville, Roland Barthes, Truman Capote, Gilles Deleuze, Jack Kerouac, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Orhan Pamuk, Edmund White, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright
Major Writings:In Search of Lost Time (1913); Remembrance of Things Past (Play); Albertine disparue (1927); Within a budding grove (1919); Pleasures and days; The Way by Swann's; Finding Time Again; Letters of Marcel Proust
The French novelist, essayist and critic Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 - 18 November 1922) is considered as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He was best known for his monumental novel, In Search of Lost Time which was published in seven parts within 1913 to 1927.
Early Life & Childhood:
Marcel Proust was born on 10 July 1871 in Auteuil, France. At age nine, he attacked by serious asthma. In 1882, Proust began his formal education entering at the Lycee Condorcet. But his education was severed because of his illness. In 1889, Proust left the school and joined in the French army as an enlisted man where he served for one year. From 1892 to 1893, he wrote criticism, sketches and short stories for the journal Le Banquet and to La Revue blanche.
Personal Life:
Marcel Proust's father Adrien Proust was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist and his mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil was the daughter of a rich and cultured Jewish family. She was literate and well-read. She helped to Proust's of translating of John Ruskin.
Later Life & Death:
In 1895, Marcel Proust published his first novel Jean Santeuil. In 1899, he became interested to the works of the English critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). After that, he rendered Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens (1904) and Sesame and Lilies (1906) into French. In 1913, he published his masterpiece novel A la Recherche du temps perdu which best known as translated name, In Search of Lost Time. Proust spent his last years to his cork-lined bedroom. He died on 18 November 1922. Marcel Proust was buried at Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France.
