{"id":1604,"date":"2021-07-10T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:41:50","slug":"150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-marcel-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/07\/10\/150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-marcel-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"230\" \/>Considered by critics to be one of the most influential authors of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, Valentin Louis Georges Eug\u00e8ne Marcel Proust\u00a0(1871\u20131922), French novelist, critic, and essayist, wrote the monumental novel\u00a0<em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, <\/em>earlier rendered as<em> Remembrance of Things Past)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By the age of nine, Proust had had his first serious asthma\u00a0attack and spent long holidays in the village of Illiers. This village, combined with recollections of his great-uncle&#8217;s house in Auteuil, became the model for the fictional town of Combray, where some of the most important scenes in his novel\u00a0take place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1609 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/a-la-recherche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"252\" \/>Begun in 1909, <em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em>\u00a0consists of seven volumes totalling around 3,200 pages and featuring more than 2,000 characters. The first volume was refused by the publisher Gallimard on Andr\u00e9 Gide&#8217;s advice, who later wrote to Proust apologizing for his part in the refusal and calling it one of the most serious mistakes of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the final volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1607 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-3-300x64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-3-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-3-1024x220.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-3-768x165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/06\/marcel-3.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considered by critics to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, Valentin Louis Georges Eug\u00e8ne Marcel Proust\u00a0(1871\u20131922), French novelist, critic, and essayist, wrote the monumental novel\u00a0\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past). By the age of nine, Proust had had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/07\/10\/150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-marcel-proust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}