Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

Born 10 Jul 1871 in Paris XVI, Paris, Seine, France

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Died 18 Nov 1922 at age 51 in Paris XVI, Paris, Seine, France

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Marcel Proust (1871-1922) était un écrivain français. Son oeuvre principale est une suite romanesque intitulée À la recherche du temps perdu. ^[1]

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust naît le 10 juillet 1871 dans la maison de son grand-oncle maternel (Louis Weil) à 96 rue Jean de La Fontaine à Paris (Auteil, 16ème arrondissement, la maison a depuis été détruite). Il était le premier enfant d'Adrien Proust, professeur à la faculté de médecine de Paris, et de Jeanne Clémence Weil. ^{[1] [2]}

Son oeuvre principale est une suite romanesque intitulée « A la recherche du temps perdu » publiée en sept tomes de 1913 à 1927 (les trois derniers à titre posthume). ^[3]

L'œuvre romanesque de Marcel Proust est une réflexion majeure sur le temps et la mémoire affective comme sur les fonctions de l'art qui doit proposer ses propres mondes, mais c'est aussi une réflexion sur l'amour et la jalousie, avec un sentiment de l'échec et du vide de l'existence qui colore en gris la vision proustienne où l'homosexualité tient une place importante.

Plutôt que le récit d'une séquence déterminée d'événements, cette œuvre s'intéresse non pas aux souvenirs du narrateur mais à une réflexion psychologique sur la littérature, sur la mémoire et sur le temps.

Le premier tome « Du côté de chez Swann » est refusé chez Gallimard sur les conseils d'André Gide, malgré les efforts du prince Antoine Bibesco et de l'écrivain Louis de Robert. Gide exprime ses regrets par la suite - et plus tard il écrivit à Marcel pour s'excuser - et qualifia ses actes de l'une des pires erreurs de sa vie. ^{[1] [4]}

Marcel Proust meurt le 18 novembre 1922 à l'âge de 51 ans, emporté par une bronchite mal soignée, dans son appartement à 44 boulevard Hamelin à Paris (16ème arrondissement). ^[5] Il est enterré au cimetière du Père-Lachaise à Paris. ^[1]

Biography

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a french writer. His masterpiece was a serial novel he titled "À la recherche du temps perdu" - initially translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past and later titled as In Search of Lost Time. ^[6]

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel ("Marcel") Proust was born on 10 July 1871 in the house of his maternal great uncle (Louis Weil) at 96 rue Jean de La Fontaine in Paris (in the "Auteil" district of the 16th arrondissement, the house having since been destroyed). He was the first child of Adrien Proust, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Paris, and of Jeanne Clémence Weil. ^{[2] [6]}

Marcel's principal work was a romantic novel that he titled À la recherche du temps perdu - which was published in seven volumes from 1913 through 1927 (the last three volumes only being published posthumously). The English translation of Proust's masterpiece, which caused quite a stir based on its themes, was initially titled Remembrance of Things Past - employing a catchy phrase of Shakespeare that did not particularly reflect Proust's title nor his book. He reportedly hated the title, and it was eventually rendered with the more literal translation of In Search of Lost Time: ^[4]

In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. Questions pertaining to homosexuality appear throughout the novel, particularly in the later volumes.

Proust's work reflected on notions of time and affective (i.e. emotional) memory, and on the functions of art in offering its own "worlds" - as well as on basic emotions such as love and jealousy, and the associated feelings that can lead to a sense of failure and emptiness. ^[3]

The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. For the centenary of the French publication of the novel's first volume, American author Edmund White pronounced In Search of Lost Time "the most respected novel of the twentieth century". ^[4]

André Gide (who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature) intitially caused publishers to refuse Proust's work, which he later wrote to Marcel to apologize for - saying it was one of the worst mistakes of his life. ^[6]

Marcel Proust died from poorly-treated bronchitis on 18 November 1922, aged 51, in his apartment at 44 boulevard Hamelin in Paris (16ème arrondissement). ^[5] He was buried in the famous Père-Lachaise cemetery at Paris. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wikipédia (fr): Marcel Proust
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Birth - Acte de naissance: Acte #456, Naissances 1871 Paris XVIème, Archives de Paris en ligne cote V4E 4643 vue 8, consulté le 24 avril 2018
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Wikipédia (fr): À la recherche du temps perdu
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Wikipedia (en): In Search of Lost Time
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Death - Acte de décès: Acte #2153, Décès 1922 Paris XVIème, Archives de Paris en ligne cote 16D 124 vue 5, consulté le 24 mars 2018
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Wikipedia (en): Marcel Proust

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