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    Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/pruːst/ PROOST, French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary...
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  • The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust, and often used by modern interviewers. Proust answered the...
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    In Search of Lost Time (category Works by Marcel Proust)
    Recherche (The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for...
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    Adrien Achille Proust (18 March 1834 – 26 November 1903) was a French epidemiologist and hygienist. He was the father of novelist Marcel Proust and doctor...
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    Sigismond Léon Proust (24 May 1873 – 29 May 1935) was a French urologist and gynaecologist and the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Both brothers...
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  • musical work described in the novel sequence In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The sonata features mainly in the section Un amour de Swann. The character...
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    C. Carter, Marcel Proust, A Life (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 197. R. T. Riva, "A Probable Model for Proust's Elstir" in...
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    made him meet Marcel Proust. In 1897, Jean Lorrain publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with Lucien Daudet. Proust challenged Lorrain...
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    famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, and filmmakers François Truffaut...
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    include: Colette, Michel Ney, Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Georges Méliès, Marcel Marceau, Olivia de Havilland, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde...
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    involuntary memories as by-products of other memories, as discussed above. Marcel Proust was the first person to coin the term involuntary memory, in his novel...
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    private consciousness" and the literary ancestor of writers such as Marcel Proust and James Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism with...
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  • Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, published in 1930, is a study of Marcel Proust. Beckett wrote Proust in the summer of 1930, in response to a commission...
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    prostitution. At the same time, he is a respected critic of the work of Marcel Proust, on whom he has published a much-cited study, and spoken on BBC Radio...
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    heart" (review of Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, translated by James Grieve, NYRB, June 2023, ISBN 978 1 68137 6295, 450 pp.; and Marcel Proust, The Swann Way...
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    York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and...
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  • Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French author. Proust may also refer to: Joseph Proust (1754–1826), French chemist, responsible for the Law of definite...
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    Céleste Albaret (category Marcel Proust)
    Marcel Proust's housekeeper and secretary. Lonely and bored in the capital, and at her husband's suggestion, Albaret began to run errands for Proust,...
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    salonnière who was the wife of composer Georges Bizet. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in his...
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  • The Marcel Proust Prize is a former literary award of France. Created by the municipal council of Cabourg, in Normandy, in 1972, it was awarded until...
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  • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (category Works about Marcel Proust)
    herself. Rorty views Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger each as different types of ironists. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust almost perfectly exemplifies...
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  • Swann in Love (film) (category Films based on works by Marcel Proust)
    Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, specifically a...
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    supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Marcel Proust praised the "grammatical purity" of Flaubert's style, while Vladimir...
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  • Albertine disparue (category Works by Marcel Proust)
    Albertine disparue (Albertine Gone) is the title of the sixth volume of Marcel Proust's seven part novel, À la recherche du temps perdu. It is also known as...
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    Search of Lost Time (also known as Remembrance of Things Past), author Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory...
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    C. K. Scott Moncrieff (category Translators of Marcel Proust)
    and translator, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean...
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  • as rooted in the projection of the inner self onto another person. Marcel Proust dissected (his own style of) obsessive love in À la recherche du temps...
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    Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical...
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    Because of his obsession with the past, he was sometimes compared to Marcel Proust. Modiano's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and...
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    " Apart from his favorite authors (Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and Marcel Proust), Capote had faint praise for other writers. However, one who did receive...
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