Within A Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time #2

Valentin Louis Georges Eug ne Marcel Proust; 10 July 1871 - 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.