Celebrity Graveland

July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

If you have one shot at a novel that vaults you into the discussion of “most influential authors of the century”…you had better make it good. You had better make it epic. You had better make it monumental.

Marcel Proust did just that.

Published over the course of more than a dozen years and seven volumes, Proust’s monumental novel, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time), became one of the first and lasting great works of the 20th Century. The themes he explored over the novel’s 4000+ pages ranged from memory and homosexuality to vanity and despair and changed the trajectory of the modern novel.
Marcel Proust was born and raised in Paris in the early years of the French Third Republic. Societal changes in his country throughout his youth would factor large in his writings. He was a gifted student who suffered from asthma. He published essays while in school and founded his own literary review in his early 20s.

After a devastating few years in the early 1900s where he lost both of his parents, Proust began working on À la Recherche… The first volume was published in 1913 as part of a supposed trilogy. Three became seven. The final three volumes were published posthumously following his death in 1922 from pneumonia.

Considered by many to be one of the most influential writers of the 1900s, Proust’s work has not only endured, but has continued to shape modern fiction. He was just 51 when he died.

Burial

Père Lachaise Cemetery – Paris, FRANCE

Specific Location

Division 85; A few spots east of Avenue Transversale No.2 to the left of a small path.

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