Marcel Proust
1871–1922 · novelist · France
Arts and ideas18 years old in 1889
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1890s
- Who governs
- The Republic lives through scandal after scandal: Panama in 1892, then the Dreyfus affair.
- Everyday life
- Electric light, the bicycle craze and, from 1898, the digging of the first metro line change city life.
- Arts and ideas
- Montmartre cabarets, Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, and in 1895 the Lumière brothers' first film screenings.
- Meanwhile
- Britain is at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, and Japan has just defeated China in 1895.
Their life in their time
- 1871
- 18743 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 18754 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188615 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189827 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 192251 years oldDies
