Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Marcel Proust | |
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Born | (1871-07-10)10 July 1871 Auteuil, Paris, France |
Died | 18 November 1922(1922-11-18) (aged 51) Paris, France |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist, critic |
Genre | novel |
Notable works | Remembrance of Things Past |
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Proust was a homosexual.[1] He died of pneumonia.