Proust's great literary work "Remembrance of Things Past" looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. This biography looks at Proust's own life which provided the background for a number of his stories and sketches.
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, and subsequently Proust's great work, Remembrance of Things Past, the major French literary statement of the 20th century.