Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871 in Paris, of Adrien
Proust, aggregate professor of medicine, and Jeanne Weil, girl
of a rich person stockbroker. Marcel Proust is a nervous, sensitive
child and maladivement attached to his mother. Moreover it suffers
from the bronchi and undergoes violent attacks of asthma. After
having followed brilliant studies to the Condorcet college,
it follows political courses of sciences and obtains an arts
degree in 1892. It has attended for a few years the literary
living rooms and collaborates in a small review: "The Banquet".
In 1894, it spends its holidays between Trouville to Cabourg,
area which one will find in "A the Research of Wasted Time".
In 1900, it leaves to Venice with his mother and is devoted
to questions of esthetics. It publishes a translation of the
critic of English art John Ruskin (the Bible of Amiens) whose
designs will mark it and modify its manner of seeing the things.
His/her father dies
in 1903 and his mother in 1905. The mourning of his/her mother
will affect it during several years.
After the death of his/her parents, his health worsens. It lives
as recluse in a papered cork apartment and hermetically closed
and becomes exhausted with work, working during the night, resting
Its œuvre principal, "A the Research Of Wasted Time",
is published between 1913 and 1927. In 1919, it receives the
Goncourt price for the second volume, "A the Shade Of the
Girls In Flowers". Its unavowable homosexuality in the
company of the time is diffuse in its œuvre. Exhausted,
Marcel Proust dies of a pneumonia on November 18, 1922.