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'''Marcel Proust''' was a [[French]] [[novelist]], famous for one work, the largely autobiographical ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', which runs to over 3000 pages. | '''Marcel Proust''' was a [[French]] [[novelist]], famous for one work, the largely autobiographical ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', which runs to over 3000 pages. | ||
The French original ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' was published over a number of years in eight volumes. | The French original ''À la recherche du temps perdu'' was published over a number of years in eight volumes. It was soon translated into English by Scott Moncrieff under the title ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and became, as Cyril Connolly remarked, almost a work of English literature itself. The new translation, a reworking by Terence Kilmartin of Moncrieef's version, was published in 1981. | ||
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Marcel Proust was a French novelist, famous for one work, the largely autobiographical In Search of Lost Time, which runs to over 3000 pages.
The French original À la recherche du temps perdu was published over a number of years in eight volumes. It was soon translated into English by Scott Moncrieff under the title Remembrance of Things Past and became, as Cyril Connolly remarked, almost a work of English literature itself. The new translation, a reworking by Terence Kilmartin of Moncrieef's version, was published in 1981.