marcel proust

     

"Within A Budding Grove", the 2nd part of his "Remembrance of Things Past", won the Goncourt Literary Prize

Trivia about marcel proust

  • The first volume in this author's 3,000-page novel was 1913's "Du Cote de Chez Swann"
  • Since he remembered things past, Echo was an apropos nom de plume for this Frenchman
  • This man who penned "A la recherche du temps perdu" suffered from asthma
  • He wrote in "Remembrance of Things Past", "The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic"
  • This author created Gilberte Swann, who entrances the young Marcel
  • This French author is best remembered for his "A la recherche du temps perdu"
  • He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published