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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving. - Marcel Proust Attribution: Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist. Nouvelle Revue Française (1918). Remembrance of Things Past, vol. II, Within a Budding Grove, p. 569, Pléiade (1954).

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Marcel Proust

Titles by Marcel Proust:

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Salem on History:

• Marcel Proust

Encyclopedia:

• Proust, Marcel (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Marcel Proust (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Marcel Proust (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Marcel Proust (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Marcel Proust (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Marcel Proust (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Pleasures and Regrets, Marcel Proust (Short Story Criticism)
• Proust, Marcel (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Marcel Proust dies
• Marcel Proust publishes A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)
• Marcel Proust is born