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This reads as a note of perspective and loneliness at once. It suggests that what feels deeply important, joyful, or painful to one person can pass almost unseen in the wider world, which can make private life feel both precious and fragile. It lands in moments of personal loss or private happiness, when the world keeps moving with little notice.
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About Marcel Proust
French novelist, literary critic, and essayist
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is best known for À la recherche du temps perdu, the seven-volume novel published between 1913 and 1927. That work runs to around 1.25 million words and secured his place among the most influential writers of the twentieth century, according to critics and fellow authors. His reputation rests above all on this long, closely observed novel and on his wider influence on modern literature.
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Books by Marcel Proust
Du côté de chez Swann
2006
Le Côté de Guermantes
1997
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
1996
Sodome et Gomorrhe
2005
La Prisonnière
2017