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BY MARCEL PROUST

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY

C.K. SCUTT MONCRIEFF

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MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922) A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU”

“I dowt think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an example of the power of analysis, and I feel safe im saying that there will never be another.”—-JOSEPH CONRAD.

The world of fashion in which Marcel Proust spent his youth and early manhood saw nothing of him during the last thirteen years of his life. A victim of chronic illness, he barricaded himself in his apartment, swathed himself like an Egyptian mummy, drew his shutters and curtains to exclude the light, and there recorded , his chronicle of things past. Son of a distinguished physician and an heiress of a rich Jewish family, Proust had his first training under the guidance of the Roman Catholic Church, An association in the 1890’s with some of the aesthetes of that period resulted in the publication of a review, to which Proust contributed some juvenile prose and verse. Thereafter the fashionable Faubourg St. Germain became his sphere, and it was there, among the illustrious and well-born, that he assimilated those fragments of gossip and family history which were later transmuted into a world in itself —the world of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LES PLAISIRS ET LES JourRs (with a preface by Anatole France (1896))

DU COTE DE\CHEZ SWANN (1918) (swANN’s way (1923))

AK WOMBRE DES JEUNES FILLES EN FLEURS (1918) (WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE (1924))

LE COTE DE GUERMANTES I (1920) LE COTE DE GUERMANTES II (1921) (THE GUERMANTES way (1925))

SODOME ET GOMORRHE I (1921) SODOME ET GOMORRHE II (1922) (cITIES OF THE PLAIN (1928))

LA PRISONNIERE (1923) (THE CAPTIVE (1929))

ALBERTINE DISPARUE (1926) (THE SWEET CHEAT GONE (1930))

LE TEMPS RETROUVE (1928) (THE PAST RECAPTURED (1932))

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