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Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust Biography (3)

Marcel Proust

1,758 words, approx. 6 pages

The French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ranks as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century. He abandoned plot and traditional dramatic action for the vision of the first-person na... Read more

Marcel Proust

5,561 words, approx. 19 pages

Marcel Proust is generally considered the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century. His reputation, which derives almost exclusively from the importance of his multivolume novel Remembrance o... Read more

(Valentin-) (Louis-George-Eugene-)Marcel Proust

21,374 words, approx. 72 pages

In 1936 Léon Pierre-Quint claimed that the vogue for A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) was ended and that Marcel Proust was destined henceforth to interest only thesis ... Read more

Essays & Analysis (4)

Critical Essay by Anatole France

531 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following essay, France provides a laudatory assessment of Pleasures and Regrets. Why did [Marcel Proust] ask me to stand sponsor to his book, and why did I promise to undertake that very pleas... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Rosengarten

7,739 words, approx. 26 pages

In the following essay, Rosengarten addresses the issue of whether the fiction and sketches in Pleasures and Regrets can be viewed as a “structured, unified whole rather than a mere patchwork o... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Rosengarten

8,472 words, approx. 29 pages

In the following essay, Rosengarten identifies several literary influences on Pleasures and Regrets. Proust's work is like a lens where all the tendencies of our literature converge. —S... Read more

Critical Essay by Roger Shattuck

2,329 words, approx. 8 pages

In the following essay, Shattuck considers the central thematic concerns of the stories in Pleasures and Regrets and places the collection within the context of Proust's fictional oeuvre. Homer... Read more

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