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Born in 1871, Marcel Proust was intent on becoming a writer from an early age. For much of his youth, Proust led the life of a man-about-town, frequenting fashionable Paris drawing rooms and literary salons, which would form the background of a number of his early stories and sketches. Remembrance of Things Past, the major French literary statement of the twentieth century, looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. It is extraordinary not only for its length, but for the remarkable observations of the aspirations, the foibles and the emotions of life. This new biography is written and read by Neville Jason who, through his recordings for Naxos AudioBooks, has become the voice of Proust for a generation.
Neville Jason: The Life and Work of MARCEL PROUST
Reynaldo Hahn sings Offrande, 1909
Three fictional creative artists: a composer, a painter and an author
Proust's episodes of 'involuntary memory' were a means of
The Franco-Prussian War
The birth of Marcel Proust, 10 January 1871
The goodnight kiss
Military service
The first short story
Influential drawing rooms
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Reynaldo Hahn
Lucien Daudet
The Dreyfus Case
The Dreyfus Case (cont)
Pleasures and Days
Jean Santeuil, the early, autobiographical novel
Anna de Noailles
Marcel Proust and John Ruskin
More work: Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens
The move to 102 Boulevard Haussmann
Time Lost, Time Regained, involuntary memory
Alfred Agostinelli
Sergei Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and friends
Looking for a publisher
The manuscript is delivered to Grasset
Proust and Agostinelli
Proust and Agostinelli (cont)
The publication of Swann's Way
The First World War begins, 3 August 1914
The year of 1915
The poet Paul Morand
Proust begins to go out again into the world
Proust changes publishers - and joins
The Armistice - a meeting with Harold Nicholson and a move to Rue Hamelin
Within a Budding Grove published in 1919, winning the Prix Goncourt
The meeting with James Joyce
Proust and Music
The Guermantes Way Part 2 and Sodom and Gomorrah published 1921
Reynaldo Hahn sings Offrande, 1909