Nom: Marcel Proust

By: Rabia Syed A1-Merchant

 

"Edward Albee, author of many acclaimed plays, including The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women: 'My favorite memoir? Well, it's the most comprehensive one I've ever read, despite its disguise as a novel. I'm referring, of course, to Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, or In Search of Lost Time, depending on the translation.'"

 

Pays/Ville

Born in Auteuil, France

Died in Paris, France

 

 

Details Personnels:

I was usually homosexual, but only after I lost the girl I loved because she was already engaged to a friend- I was just flirting with her. After that I fell mostly for men, and a woman too, here and there. So I suppose I could be called bisexual.

I lived in my parent's apartment until they both died.

I was considered a sickly child because I had an asthma attack when I was 9.

I was nocturnal for a long time.

 

Aussi connu sous le nom de:

Valentin-Louis-George-Eugene-Marcel Proust
Marc Antoine

Dominique

Echo

Horatio

Sa prétention à la célébrité:

• Most famous for introduction of psychoanalysis
• Introduced cyclical time, which is the cycles of nature
• Wrote many long books and literary pieces in interior monologue, or freewrite, so whatever came to my mind was written on the paper
• Also, my book so enourmous that they were almost like a series and had to be split into many volumes

 

Date de Naissance:

July 10, 1871

 

Date de Mort:

November 18, 1922 of sickness

 

Sexe:

Male 

 

Croyances Religieuses:

I am half Christian and half Jewish, which is why I was so involved in the where a Jewish captain was in the French army and was imprisoned and then freed. However, quite a stirrup was already made so I had some parties where I invited both sides of the case, in order to lower tensions between the Parisians.

 

Situation de Famille:

I died without marrying, but went through many relationships, mostly with men.

 

Enfants:

I had no children that I am aware of.

 

En Cherchant:

Love, although most of my love cycles have not ended well.

 

Metier:

French Novelist, writer, essayist and critic

 

Des extraits de ses Å“uvres:

• "'There, there; will you put your hat on, you!' she scolded Swann in a thick and almost growling voice, speaking like an old and familiar friend. 'I am going to present to you Her Imperial Highness,' Mme Swann whispered. Swann drew me aside for a moment while his wife talked of the weather and of the animals recently added to the Jardin d'Acclimatation, with the Princess" (500 Proust). From Within a Budding Grove. Although things seem rather confusing and jumbled, this is how almost all of the book is: spoken in normal words, yet making no sense.

 

Accomplissements:

• Writings in chronological order: Remembrance of Things Past; Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; Swann in Love; The Guermantes Way; Sodom and Gomorrah; The Captive (two volumes); The Sweet Cheat Gone (two volumes); Time Regained (two volumes); and many other poetry, prose, articles, letters, and miscellaneous writings as well.
• Won the Prix Goncourt in 1919 for my book Within a Budding Grove
• Named to the French League of Honor in 1920

 

Education:

• High school: Lycee Condorcet; Graduated 1889
• Went into the military for a year for government obligations
• Studied law at the Sorbonne
• After, I went into studying philosophy to avoid having to get a job as a lawyer

 

Personnage que je voudrais rencontrer et pourquoi:

• I am remembered on broadway, as there is a play based on one of my writings; the play is: Marcel Proust Remembered.

 

Amis:

• Daniel Halvy
• Jacques Bizet
• Gaston de Caillavet

 

Sports:

• I was pretty scrawny and delicate as a boy, so I was generally not involved in sports. I preferred to be writing or reading, or involved in literary things

 

Citation Memorable:

 

"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."

 

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

 

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

 

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

 

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

 

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey."

 

"We become moral when we are unhappy." 

-Marcel Proust

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

 

          Many forms of literature can often be thought of as the written art. Marcel Proust was unique in his art, because his most popular form of writing was free write, perhaps one of the more creative ways for authors to write. He would write pages and pages, with no noticeable form, yet somehow, there would be some meaning behind it all. Proust wrote many long pieces in interior monologue, or freewrite, so that whatever he was thinking would usually end up on paper. This often made some of his famous pieces somewhat autobiographical, because he would write about situations pertaining to his own life.  The freewritten novels are an indirect expression of the inner thoughts of what is "generally considered the greatest French novelist of the twentieth century" (Saari http://www.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/culture-recreation/what-marcel-prousts-claim-literary-fame).

     

          How does Marcel Proust influence French culture? It was infact Proust who first introduced psychoanalysis for mental patients, cyclical time, and other great innovations that effect both French culture as well as American. He add a new bit of flair to French cultural readings by introducing so many interior monologues. Many other playwrites and authors, like Edward Albee, fawn over how great Proust's writings are. In relation to French culture, he won a major French literary award, called the Goncourt Prize, for one of his works, The Budding Grove. This is influential because the award itself is very prominent and given each year to the author with the "best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Marcel Proust doubtlessly accomplished that with his work in The Budding Grove. This influences the culture because as more people found out about him, and began reading his true classics, more people would be aware of him and interest in his pieces would go up. While it takes some thought to understand some of his plots and what goes on in his books, intellectual readers would welcome the challenge and also be entertained by his almost unique form of writing.

 

          All in all, Marcel Proust was an influential man to French culture. He introduced to them a new form of creative writing and wrote what many other authors and other people think are the best examples of prose and story writing. Proust's pieces have some partially hidden autobiographies in them, because Proust wrote in interior monologue, so his thoughts and feelings were incorporated into some of his writings. By winning the Goncourt Prize in 1919, one can see that he was known in France, even at the time as on of the world's greaetst writers. Marcel Proust is on of the greatest, most eccentric, influential authors of France from the 20th century.

 

 

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Resources:

"Marcel Proust." Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol. 58. Thomson Gale, 2004.

     Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com          /servlet    /BioRC

 

Saari, Peggy. "Culture And Recreation - What Is Marcel Proust's Claim To Literary Fame?." History Fact Finder. Ed. Julie      L. Carnagie. UXL-GALE, 2001. eNotes.com. 2006. 5 Jun, 2009 <http://www.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/

     culture-recreation/what-marcel-prousts-claim-literary-fame>.

 

 

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