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	Proust, Marcel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Proust’s semiautobiographical novel cycle is superficially concerned with its hero’s development through childhood and through youthful love affairs to the point of commitment to literary endeavor.
		In Proust’s scheme the individual is isolated, society is false and ruled by snobbery, and artistic endeavor is raised to a religion and is superior to nature.
		Proust’s ability to interpret innermost experience in terms of such eternal forces as time and death created a profound and protean world view and his work has influenced generations of novelists and thinkers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pr/Proust-M.html (497 words)

	Marcel Proust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proust's father, Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera through Europe and Asia.
		Graham Greene called Proust the "greatest novelist of the 20th century," and Somerset Maugham called the novel the "greatest fiction to date." Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the last volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert.
		Proust himself was homosexual, and is supposed to have had a long-running affair with pianist and composer Reynaldo Hahn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proust (1989 words)

	Marcel Proust
		Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil, near Paris, the son of an eminent doctor, Adrien Proust, and his wife, Jeanne Weil, who was from a well-to-do Alsatian Jewish family.
		To the age of 35 Proust lived the life of a snob and social climber in the salons, although he worked for a short time as a lawyer and was active in the Dreyfuss affair, like Émile Zola and other artists and intellectuals.
		Proust is generally considered a pioneer of the modern novel.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /proust.htm (1765 words)

	Marcel Proust Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Marcel Proust was born to wealthy bourgeois parents on July 10, 1871, in Auteuil, a suburb of Paris.
		In the meantime, Proust was creating a name for himself in high society as a brilliant conversationalist with an ear for speech patterns that enabled him to mimic others with devastating ease and accuracy.
		Although Proust had, by 1909, accumulated and reworked most of the material that was to become À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), he still had not fully grasped the focal point that would enable him to structure and to orchestrate his vast material.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/marcel-proust (1421 words)

	Marcel Proust: Biography
		Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil as the son of an eminent doctor, Adrien Proust, and his wife, Jeanne Weil, who was from an Alsatian Jewish family.
		Proust's unpublished works from this period, Jean Santeuil, (an autobiographical work which was never finished) and Contre Sainte-Beuve, (the latter an attack of the criticism of Sainte-Beuve), were discovered in the 1950s.
		To the age of 35 Proust lived the life of a social climber in the Paris salons, although he worked for a short time as a lawyer and was also active in the Dreyfuss affair (of which he wrote extensively in A la Recherché) like Émile Zola and other artists and intellectuals.
	www.studiocleo.com /librarie/proust/text.html (1161 words)

	proust
		Proust's novel earns its place in literature as a great comic tale, punctuated with srniles and guffaws Henry James produced a formula that has been well received: "inconceivable boredom associated with the most extreme ecstasy which it is possible to imagine." It is hard to read the sentence as anything but dispraise.
		Proust claimed that he wrote parts of his first book at the age of fourteen (Jean Santieul), and there is little reason to doubt him.
		Proust was the first of a long line of farmers and tradesman to leave Illiers.
	home.earthlink.net /~mpresley/proust.html (5280 words)

	Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
		Proust had begun in autumn 1895 a novel which he later abandoned in autumn 1899 and never finished.
		Early in 1908 Proust wrote for Le Figaro a series of pastiches in which he imitated the style of Balzac, Michelet, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve and other prose writers of the nineteenth century.
		Proust died of pneumonia on November 18, 1922.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /kolbp/proust.html (589 words)

	Proust regained by Daniel Mark Epstein
		In Proust’s fiction we enjoy a pleasing counterpoint of romance and irony, humor and pathos, a balance of which Proust boasts, indirectly, in praising the sincerity of the baron: “How unfortunate it is that M. de Charlus is not a novelist or poet.
		Proust’s romantic sensibility naturally thrived upon the technique of using concrete figures—the madeleine, the bumble-bee and orchid, the seawaves—to stand for abstract realities such as the persistence of memory, generation and regeneration, and the soul’s journey.
		Proust is an odd hero in twentieth-century literature, an anachronism, being at once a romantic, a Platonist, and an impressionist, an artificer of a baroque, old-fashioned roman-fleuve that is in so many ways the antithesis of streamlined modern art.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/19/oct00/proust.htm (5455 words)

	Marcel Proust: Critique by Roger Shattuck
		Proust's substantial reputation as an extreme case of something - longwindedness, psychological vivisection, the snobbery of letters, salvation by memory - rests not on wide readership but on a myth of uniqueness defended by a dedicated few.
		Second, the moral universe of Proust's work never breaks free from the attitude of a spoiled, sickly, adolescent snob born to wealth on the fringes of high culture and high society.
		Proust, fifteen years younger than her husband, was the highiy educated, art-loving daughter of a wealthy Stockbroker.
	www.studiocleo.com /librarie/proust/crittext.html (7268 words)

	Lunacharsky on Marcel Proust
		Proust is an impressionist, Proust loves his "living ego" which is not particularly whole and well constructed in itself but, on the contrary, shifting, capricious and occasionally morbid.
		This is why, for Proust, the whole, finished structure only has meaning in so far as it brings order to a series of isolated moments, or, occasionally, to whole systems of moments, but it has no aim in itself.
		Proust's style - with its cloudy, colloidal, honeyed consistency and extraordinarily aromatic sweetness - is the only medium fitted to induce tens of thousands of readers to join you enthusiastically in reliving your not particularly significant life, recognising therein some peculiar significance and surrendering themselves to this long drawn out pleasure with undisguised delight.
	art-bin.com /art/oluna4pro.html (2193 words)

	Marcel Proust. Biography and complete works
		Marcel Proust was born into an upper middle class family in Auteuil, near Paris, in 1871, that had strong scientific and artistic interests.
		Proust was plagued with ill health, having asthma from the age of nine.
		Proust is generally regarded, on the basis of Remembrance of Things Past, as the greatest French novelist of the 20th century and pioneer of the modern novel.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/proust.htm (881 words)

	Proust's Ruined Mirror
		Proust's protagonist, Marcel, is highly irritating because he is both vain and sorry for himself---and it is likely a largely unintentional effect because Proust himself was.
		Proust specializes in showing us that people are, in reality, completely different from what we think they are, that in fact human reality is a convention, a superficial and lazy matter of common agreement that is easily pierced by the truth if you know where to look.
		Proust's greatest desire (greater than Marcel's passion for Albertine) is to traverse time, to recapture the past, to regain not only lost memories but lost people and things: Marcel's grandmother (but Proust's mother); Albertine (but Proust's dead aviator-chauffeur-lover); or the Combray (Illiers) and Balbec of Marcel's childhood.
	www.spectacle.org /299/proust.html (5735 words)

	Marcel Proust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marcel Proust was born in 1871 in Paris.
		Proust sided with the Dreyfusards, but the contoversy, which was not to be resolved until 1906, fostered a disenchantment in Proust with the military and social heroes he had formerly celebrated.
		Proust's first lover was Reynaldo Hahn, a Jewish composer and singer from Venezuela whom Proust met when he was 22 and continued to see for two years.
	www.cemetery.org /Lachaise/proust.html (667 words)

	Why Proust? And Why Now?
		Proust is so popular these days that in San Francisco a gathering of fans called the Proust Support Group has had to form a second section because so many people signed up to read The Novel.
		Proust was born in 1871, the son of a prominent doctor.
		Proust based the character of Swann on Charles Haas and Charles Ephrussi, founder and editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
	pages.nyu.edu /~gmp1/proust.htm (1661 words)

	NYSL Travels - Paris: Proust's Time Regained
		Proust was preoccupied with memory rather than fact and many of his characters are not fully drawn human beings but his visual sensitivity was so strong that the Paris he knew became an attribute of individuals as well as the most precise stage setting.
		Proust was the most perceptive fashion writer of all time and his descriptions of what his characters wore are integral to his story.
		Proust tells us imprecisely that the Swanns lived between the Etoile and the Bois until, after thickets of pages, it becomes clear that they had redecorated "the very odd little house with a lot of Chinese stuff" in which Odette resided before they were married.
	www.nysoclib.org /travels/proust.html (6303 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Proust's In Search of Lost Time—as we've now learned to call his novel, whose name used to be rendered as Remembrance of Things Past—is very long, published in seven separate volumes.
		Proust, I think, works the same way—recounting not so many incidents, but treating each in microscopic and absorbing detail—which is why I found myself writing very long (and detailed) phrases when, as a composer, I fell under his spell.
		That napkin, Proust has his Narrator say, "had precisely the same degree of stiffness and starchedness" as a towel with which he'd dried his face in a town by the seashore he'd visited in childhood.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=60vw01 (2437 words)

	proust
		Proust claimed that he wrote parts of his first book at the age of fourteen (Jean Santieul), and there is little reason to doubt him.
		Whatever Proust's medical and psychological condition may have been, and whatever his heredity, he found his own path into the Parisian life of Ia belle epoque.
		In Proust's case we have two such documents, one written at thirteen and the other at twenty.
	home.cfl.rr.com /mpresley1/proust.html (5280 words)

	`Proust's Paris' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, the wealthy, elite social world that Proust inhabited -- with its intense interest in new artistic and literary trends, the convoluted, often decayed relationships of its habitués and the tension between that world and a lower class --simply formed the skeleton for Proust's literary interests.
		Proust uses the occasion to explore the elusive qualities of music and how listeners make sense of the sounds they hear.
		Proust uses that event to explore the role of musical memory in listening to new music.
	www.chron.com /content/interactive/special/finearts/music/proust.html (994 words)

	Proust's Way (Excerpt)
		Proust's first critics were at a terrible disadvantage; they had to interpret the whole from a few parts.
		Proust claimed that he wrote parts of his first book at the age of fourteen (JS 902), and there is little reason to doubt him.
		Mme Proust, fifteen years younger than her husband, was the highly educated, art-loving daughter of a wealthy stockbroker.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring01/proustex.htm (7072 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: Lose and Seek
		Proust did such a remarkably good job with Ruskin that the philosopher Henri Bergson said of it, "One would never suspect the work of being a translation." The accomplishment was all the more remarkable because Proust's English was practically nonexistent.
		If Proust's English was poor, it only drove him to consult his dictionaries with greater care; if he was self-absorbed, his absorption was so great that it was capable of absorbing Ruskin as well.
		This is where self-absorption (who could be more self-absorbed than Proust?) and selflessness (who is more selfless than a translator?) meet up, in their tacit acknowledgment that the hidden reality of things lies neither in the self nor outside of it, but only in words, and that nothing matters more than getting those words right.
	www.villagevoice.com /specials/vls/180/lafarge.shtml (835 words)

	Marcel Proust Letters, Articles, Translations
		Proust's foreword to Les Plaisirs et les Jours which was not included in Louise Varese's translation Pleasures and Regrets.
		One of Proust's literary pastiches, in the style of Henri de Régnier, poet and novelist (1864-1936).
		From the Bibliothèque Nationale Marcel Proust exhibition catalogue 1965, from Corréspondance Générale Correspondance avec Madame Straus, Plon 1936 and the Kolb-Proust archive.
	www.yorktaylors.free-online.co.uk (1420 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Proust, Marcel
		Marcel Proust is the author of A la recherche du temps perdu, one of the major achievements of Modernism and a great gay novel.
		Proust had a comfortable and protected bourgeois childhood--all the more cosseted after the age of nine when he had the first in a lifelong sequence of debilitating asthma attacks.
		Proust also had encounters that were purely sexual, these invariably with men of a lower social class.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/proust_m.html (718 words)

	Marcel Proust at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Proust is remembered for his mighty work, Rememberance of Things Past which took him the last ten years of his short life to write.
		Proust had two great passions in life which are portrayed in the Remembrance of Things Past, that is epistemophilia and speculophilia.
		Proust had an unusual way of writing: he wrote in bed, in worn clothes, taking lots of drugs, staying all day in overheated rooms.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Proust (694 words)

	Mercantile Library of New York \| Programs \| Proust Society of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Proust Society of America is a permanent program of The Mercantile Library of New York and its Center for World Literature.
		Proust Group II meets the 4th Thursday of every month in the second floor Reading Room at 5:30 p.m.
		Marcel Proust attended the salon of Geneviève Straus, which was noted for its stimulating conversations.
	www.mercantilelibrary.org /proust.html (930 words)

	Proust, Marcel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Literary offspring: The figure of the child in Marcel Proust and Reinaldo Arenas.
		From Baalbek to Baghdad and beyond Marcel Proust's foreign memories of France.
		Le manuscrit du célèbre questionnaire de Marcel Proust, adjugé pour 120.227 euros mardi à Drouot Deux manuscrits de Marcel.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Proust-M1.asp (1084 words)

	Proust
		Whether he was viewing paintings at the Louvre or inspecting a cupboard in his kitchen, Proust used his keen sense of comparative worth to find the familiar in the exalted, and the divine in the ordinary.
		Proust also shows us how to appreciate art as a grounding force, a shared experience by which the artist elicits personal connections that are impossible to anticipate.
		Intellectually, Proust found face-to-face conversation to be wholly unsatisfying, and he instead preferred to converse via written correspondence.
	www.mindspring.com /~twotom/proust.html (748 words)

	How much did Proust know about madeleines? - By Edmund Levin - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Marcel Proust's madeleine is the cliché cookie—a highbrow reference that's penetrated pop culture.
		Dining With Proust, a cookbook that re-creates dozens of dishes from Remembrance, is co-authored by Anne Borrel, founder of the Proust Museum in Illiers-Combray.
		Proust was not finicky about his sensory stimuli—the fictional Marcel is even propelled into a reverie at one point by the dank smell of a lavatory.
	slate.msn.com /id/2118443 (1791 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Proust: And Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit (Calderbooks): Books: Samuel Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Samuel Beckett's celebrated study of Marcel Proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931, a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations.
		Proust's dark landscape is lit only by flashes of involuntary memory, 'accidental and fugitive salvations in the midst of life'.
		True enough as far as it goes, but the discrepancy between the lyrical heterosexual love scenes in the earlier volumes and the grotesque catalogue of depravity which describes the homosexual world of the Cities of the Plain might be thought to imply a condemnation: a masochistic self-flagellation on the author's part.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Proust-Dialogues-Georges-Duthuit-Calderbooks/dp/0714500348 (1590 words)

	Marcel Proust, or the novel as writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For Proust, as for the Impressionists, « the spectacle of young women's dresses does not spoil that of the eternal sea ».
		As in the romances of courtly love, some of the protagonists that Proust stages are prevented from completing their journey.
		Actually, Proust contributes to a literary revolution comparable to that accomplished in painting in his day and that the non-figurative painters were to achieve in a more radical way.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /label_france/ENGLISH/LETTRES/Proust/proust.html (1017 words)

	Reading "In Search of Lost Time" - Salon
		If so, I am here to tell you, we are a lucky group, and it is time for you to begin, because reading all of Proust is not hard.
		First, you buy all seven volumes in a uniform edition -- mine came in a six-book set -- and you arrange them in a row next to your bed, the bathtub or your favorite chair, wherever you are most comfortable reading.
		In order to pass the time, she reads him a novel by George Sand; already his literary sensibility is at work -- "Beneath the everyday incidents, the ordinary objects and common words, I sensed a strange and individual tone of voice." And so have you.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/08/28/proust/index.html (809 words)

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