Marcel Proust

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 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 of Moncrieff's by Terence Kilmartin, was published in 1981.

Original French publication

• 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, Nouvelle Revue Française (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 & II, NRF, 1921-1922 (The Guermantes Way)
• Sodome et Gomorrhe I & II, NRF, 1922-1923 (Cities of the Plain)
• La Prisonnière, NRF, 1923 (The Captive)
• Albertine disparue (La Fugitive), NRF, 1925 (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
• Le Temps retrouvé, NRF, 1927 (Time Regained)