Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871, in Auteuil, France. He was born two years after the end of the Frankurt Treaty Franco-Prussian Kingdom wars. His childhood coincided with the third republican inauguration.
The author's greatest work, In Search of Lost Time, focuses on the collapse of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle class and social changes.
Marcel Proust's parents were very sophisticated people. By the time he was 9, he had his first severe asthma attack. After that, he was always referred to as a sick child. He spent most of his childhood vacationing on a farm.
He enrolled in high school, but his education was interrupted because of his illness. Despite this, he came to the fore with his literary talent. Thanks to his friends, he was able to enter the halls of the bourgeois class and gained important resources for his book In Search of Lost Time.
Marcel Proust never worked a job in his life, and he continued to live with them until his parents died. He got his philosophy degree.
Proust spent the last three years of his life in bed. He went to bed during the day and tried to finish his novel at night. He contracted pneumonia in 1922 and died of a lung abscess. While half the literary world has portrayed him as a brilliant writer, the other half have stated that he is too heavy to read.
A pain doesn't go away unless you live to the end.
Real discovery isn't about finding new land, it's about looking at it with new eyes.
Some people bore you with their extreme curiosity, others with absolute incuriousness.
Works
- In Search of Lost Time
- On Reading
- Pleasures and Day
- Love Is Mutual Torture
- Letters to The Upstairs Neighbor
- Reading Days
- Letters to the Princess
- Around Lost Time
- A Love of Swann
- Against Sainte-Beuve
- Literature and Art Writings
- My Last Remaining Beautiful Paper
- Creative Literacy
- Swanns' Side Combray
- Lemoine Case
This content was updated on 29/03/2024.