Marcel Proust

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French writer critic diarist essayist human novelist

Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.

Aliases (4)

Marcel Proust (cousin by marriage) ×1
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time ×1
Proust ×1
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ×1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French writer → critic → diarist → essayist → human → novelist →
birthDate	1871-07-10 →
birthPlace	Auteuil, Paris, France →
burialPlace	Père Lachaise Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	pneumonia →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathDate	1922-11-18 →
deathPlace	Paris, France →
educatedAt	Lycée Condorcet → Sciences Po NERFINISHED → University of Paris NERFINISHED →
ethnicGroup	French people →
familyName	Proust →
fieldOfWork	literary criticism → literature → novel writing →
fullName	Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust →
gender	male →
genre	autobiographical fiction → modernist literature → psychological fiction →
givenName	Marcel →
hasWorkInTheCollection	Bibliothèque nationale de France →
influenced	Jorge Luis Borges → Samuel Beckett → Virginia Woolf → Vladimir Nabokov →
influencedBy	Gustave Flaubert → Honoré de Balzac → John Ruskin →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	literary impressionism → modernism →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableIdea	involuntary memory →
notableWork	In Search of Lost Time → Swann's Way → À la recherche du temps perdu →
occupation	essayist → literary critic → novelist → writer →
parent	Adrien Proust → Jeanne Clémence Weil →
partOf	French literature →
primaryTheme	consciousness → memory → time →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
sexualOrientation	homosexual →
writingStyle	long, complex sentences →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bergsonianism → Gustave Flaubert → Henri Bergson → Honoré de Balzac → John Ruskin → La Comédie humaine →	influenced
Orhan Pamuk → Virginia Woolf →	influencedBy
Père Lachaise Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
View of Delft ("Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time") →	describedBySource
Marcel Proust ("Proust") →	familyName
Marcel Proust ("Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust") →	fullName
Modernism →	notableFigure
Henri Bergson ("Marcel Proust (cousin by marriage)") →	relative