À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist best known for his monumental seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), published between 1913 and 1927, which pioneered stream-of-consciousness techniques and explores memory, time, and society. The second volume, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1919, cementing his status as one of the 20th century's greatest novelists.Proust Ink.