Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was a French novelist from a bourgeois family. He was born in Paris on July 10, 1871, and as a child, he suffered from asthma, his childhood was filled with love and attention, especially from his mother.

After graduating he went to serve the military in Orleans. When he came back he went to study political sciences in Paris. During his studies, Bergson made a big influence on him. He was interested in literature and he published his first work in the magazine "Le Banquet".

He was often seen on banquets and in aristocratic circles. His high-class lifestyle takes a turn when within 2 years he loses both of his parents - his father died in 1903 and his mother in 1905.

In 1906 he lived all alone and then his consistent literary work began. He was in a race with time and he began his life work "In Search of Lost Time" which is divided into seven parts: "Swann's Way", "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower", "The Guermantes Way", "Sodom and Gomorrah", "The Prisoner", "The Fugitive" and "Time Regained".

He received the Prix Goncourt for his novel "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" in 1918.

Proust died of pneumonia on November 18, 1922.