Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, the son of a respected doctor, Adrien Proust, and Jeanne Weil, who came from a wealthy Jewish family. From the age of nine he suffered from serious asthma attacks, and he was often ill throughout his life. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet, served a year in the French army and studied law and philosophy. As a young man he moved in the fashionable salons of Parisian high society, while writing articles and stories; his first book, Pleasures and Days, appeared in 1896. After the deaths of his father in 1903 and of his mother in 1905, Proust withdrew more and more from society, living in a cork-lined bedroom and writing at night. His great novel, In Search of Lost Time, in seven volumes, explores memory, time, love, art and society; in a famous passage the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea brings back the narrator's childhood. The first volume, Swann's Way, was published in 1913, and the second won the Prix Goncourt in 1919. He died in Paris in 1922.

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Faith: Baptized and confirmed a Catholic, his father's faith, but never formally practiced; his mother came from a Jewish family. Source: Wikipedia