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 novelist 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 in eight 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 by Terence Kilmartin of Moncrieff's, 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 et II, NRF, 1921-1922 (The Guermantes Way)
• Sodome et Gomorrhe I et 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)