Marcel Proust

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.