Robert Proust
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Robert Emile Sigismond Léon Proust was a French urologist and gynaecologist and the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust.
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Robert and Marcel Proust. Modeste Chambay, 1877.
Caricature of Robert Proust. A. Chanteau, 1922.
In Search of Lost Time
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In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. Th
Robert Proust
…supporter of his brother's writing career, and following Marcel's early death, he arranged for publication of the final three volumes of Marcel's novel À la recherche du temps perdu. He published a landmark medical paper on perineal prostatectomy, "De la prostatectomie périnéale totale", following which his colleagues nicknamed his…
A first galley proof of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with Proust's handwritten corrections
NRF edition of Du côté de chez Swann, 1917
1923 edition of La Prisonnière. It is labelled as "Tome VI" as Sodom et Gomorrhe was originally published in two volumes.
Illiers, the country town overlooked by a church steeple where Proust spent time as a child and which he described as "Combray" in the novel. The town adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage.