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Marcel Proust

1871 - 1922

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Proust was born in the Auteuil quarter of Paris, to a wealthy bourgeois family. His father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist who studied cholera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 138 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 135 in 2024). Marcel Proust is the 51st most popular writer (up from 60th in 2024), the 44th most popular biography from France (up from 48th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Writer.

Marcel Proust is most famous for his novel "In Search of Lost Time." The novel is divided into seven volumes, including "Swann's Way," "Within a Budding Grove," "The Guermantes Way," "The Captive," "The Fugitive," "The Sweet Cheat Gone," and "Time Regained."

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Among writers, Marcel Proust ranks 51 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Baudelaire. After him are Denis Diderot, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, Li Bai, and Octave Mirbeau.

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Among people born in 1871, Marcel Proust ranks 2. Before him is Rosa Luxemburg. After him are Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Scriabin, Friedrich Ebert, Grazia Deledda, Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1922, Marcel Proust ranks 3. Before him are Pope Benedict XV, and Alexander Graham Bell. After him are Charles I of Austria, Fredrik Bajer, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Enver Pasha, Erich von Falkenhayn, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ernest Shackleton, Djemal Pasha, and Hermann Rorschach.

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Among people born in France, Marcel Proust ranks 44 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Durkheim (1858), Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Charles Baudelaire (1821). After him are Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Émile Zola (1840), and Gustave Flaubert (1821).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marcel Proust ranks 11. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Charles Baudelaire (1821). After him are Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), and Romain Rolland (1866).

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