\b0 Born in Paris in 1871, Marcel Proust belonged to the world of the moneyed middle class, on w
hich his series of books entitled \i A la recherche du temps perdu \i0 (\i In Remembrance of Things Past\i0 ) turned. This was made up of seven autobiographical volumes in which he revolutionized the art of analysis and introspection by means of a subtle
and circuitous but precise and rigorous approach to writing that sets out to penetrate the most complex secrets of the human soul. His style weaves a delicate and heady spell in which the French language is utilized to perfection. Recounting simple fact
s and drawing on a set of almost anodyne memories, without artificial devices, Marcel Proust succeeded in renewing the French novel. He died in 1922.\par
