Death is in truth an illness from which we recover —Marcel Proust 0 Marcel Proust Quotes About Life There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, f...
Marcel Proust, French novelist who wrote In Search of Lost Time (1913–27), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life told psychologically and allegorically. It is one of the supreme achievements in modern fiction. Learn more about Proust’s life and
During 1899 he became interested in the works of the English critic John Ruskin (1819–1900), and after Ruskin's death the next year, Proust published an article that established him as a Ruskin scholar. Proust wrote several more articles on Ruskin, and with the help of an English-speaking...
like Proust ill, threatened by death (or believing himself so) came back to the phrase of Saint John which Proust quotes in Contre Sainte-Beuve : “Work, while you still have the light.…” Does this mean that I am going to write a novel? How should I know? I don’t know if it...