Marcel porust was born in Paris in 1871 and died in the same city in 1922 (so it belonged more to the XNUMXth century than the XNUMXth). His father was Adrien proust, a renowned doctor, and his mother Jeanne weil, and the relationships with them, which were sometimes conflictive, occupied a very important place in the life of Proust.
Marcel he was an asthmatic child, pampered and overprotected.
He excelled as a student in the Condorcet high school and did military service in Orleans. Then he attended the University The Sorbonne, but pursuing a college degree was not in his plans. The passion for writing had already awakened.
Like any young man who claims to be a writer, he had to face and overcome various adversities.
But during his youth, the writer also led a rather dissipated life, liking parties and the famous "salons" where the aristocracy of the time met.
During those years they lived together in Proust his taste for superficial life, luxury and beautiful women (whose wooing his mother sometimes paid for), and his destiny as a writer and the vision of the world that this entails.
In 1896 he published The pleasures and the days, a collection of stories and essays.
Then, he worked on a book that, many years later, was published under the name of Jean Santeuil (which was actually a draft of In Search of Lost Time) although he later abandoned the project.
After the death of his mother in 1905, Proust he was moving away from social circles, until the end of the last 10 years of his life practically confined writing.
Everything that the writer did not have time to say, to write, in his youth, because he was after the loves of some girl in those "salons", was exposed in a voluminous series of novels gathered under the name of In Search of Lost Time.
This work evokes, precisely, that (that) lost time (lost for literature) in parties and meetings; and it is remembered for what it was: youth.
In search of lost time is a large and very complex work (although pleasant to read), so not all lovers of literature are encouraged to embark on reading it.
The edition of the first volume of the series, Down the swann road, he had to pay for it himself Proust before the indeference of the editors. The second, In the shadow of the girls in bloom, was welcomed by critics. And the last volumes of the series were published posthumously.
Sensitivity, delicacy and the ability to perceive minute details and nuances are the characteristics of In Search of Lost Time and Proust.
Marcel Proust, a classic of our times, one of those writers that everyone knows they should read.