Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).

It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.