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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (/ p r uː s t / PROOST; [1] French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between ...
Marcel Proust (1871–1922), author of In Search of Lost Time, sometimes seen as the greatest modernist novel; Colette (1873–1954), best known for Gigi and Chéri; Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), satirist, inventor of Pataphysics; Jeanne Landre (1874–1936), journalist, critic and novelist; Fanny Clar (1875–1944) Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. c ...
Prévost was born in Paris on 1 May 1862, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882. He published a story in the Le Clairon as early as 1881, but for some years after the completion of his studies he applied his technical knowledge to the manufacture of tobacco.
Both as a writer and as a historian of literature, he was an adept of fantastic literature. He recognized three masters in the fantastic field: Charles Nodier, Gérard de Nerval and Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. A very good connoisseur of music, he published works on Schubert and Wagner and traced the history of the ballet since Louis XIV.
Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality), by date of birth. For an alphabetical list of writers of French nationality (broken down by genre), see French writers category .
Marcel Berger (13 May 1885 – 17 November 1966) was a French writer. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. [1]
List of French playwrights. 2 languages. ... Marcel Achard (1899–1974) 20th century. Jean Tardieu (1903–1995) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) Georges Schehad ...
Other distinctions include membership in the Legion of Honour, the Croix de guerre, a Grand Officer in the French Order of Merit, and an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. [1] The 1982 television program The Romantic Spirit, which aired in the U.S. on the A&E (TV channel) from 1985–1991, credits Brion as having "devised" the series.