Marcel Proust

Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust; July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922), a French writer, is best known for his stream-of-consciousness work "In Search of Lost Time" published between 1913 and 1927. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Marcel Proust was born into a wealthy and educated family (his father was a professor of medicine in Paris), but he was sickly as a child and suffered from severe breathing problems caused by asthma throughout his life. At an early age he began to attend elegant salons or meet some very famous writers and artists, and during this period he was recognized as an artistic amateur. Benefitting from his family's wealth, he had no fixed career and began to write fragments of novels in 1895 (which were not published during the author's lifetime and were not collected and published until 1952 as "Jean Santeuil"). In 1900, in order to follow in the footsteps of John Ruskin's artistic works, he gave up the work at hand and began a journey from Venice to Padua. By 1907, Marcel Proust began to write his great work "In Search of Lost Time". The seven volumes of the book were published between 1913 and 1927, which means that some of the works were published after Proust's death. On November 18, 1922, Proust died haggardly due to an attack of pneumonia and bronchitis. He was later buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. There was a large number of spectators during the burial to commemorate this great writer. In later generations, Proust was regarded as a true literary myth. Proust's romantic works are a profound reflection on emotional time and memories based on art, and are also an in-depth experience of love and jealousy. Under Proust's unique gray perspective (in which homosexual thinking plays an important role), he also mixed a lot of sentimentality about failure and an empty and confused life. 《Reminiscing about the past》It is also a magnificent comedy that contains two hundred characters and is dedicated to describing human nature.。