| 1871 |
born July 10 outside Paris in
Auteuil |
| 1893 |
studied at the School of Political
Sciences and took a license in law |
| 1895 |
began a semi-autobiographical
novel, abandoned in 1899, and published post-humus in 1952 and took a license
in literature from the School of Political Sciences |
| 1896 |
published his first works,
Portraits de Peintres and
Plaisirs et les Jours (Pleasures and Days) (a
collection of short stories, essays, and poems that was not very
successful) |
| 1897 |
active in the Dreyfuss affair
(1897-1899) and wrote about it extensively in A la
Recherché he also helped to organize petitions
and assisted Dreyfus' lawyer Labori, courageously defying the risk of
social ostracism |
| 1903 |
father died |
| 1904 |
published a number of articles on
Ruskin, and a translation of La Bible d'Amiens |
| 1905 |
mother died |
| 1906 |
published a translation of Sesame
et les Lys |
| 1908 |
wrote a series of pastiches in
which he imitated the style of Balzac, Michelet, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve,
and other prose writers of the 19th c for Le Figaro |
| 1909 |
developed an essay entitled
"Contre Sainte-Beuve" or "On Art and Literature" into
a novel which he would continue to write for the rest of his life |
| 1910 |
spent much time in his cork-lined,
sound-proof bedroom, writing introspectively, often sleeping in the day
and working in the night |
| 1912 |
produced the first volume of his
seven part major work, Remembrance of Things Past |
| 1913 |
adopted a title
for the novel he began working on in 1909: A la recherche du temps perdu
and the first part of it was published, Du Côté
chez Swan |
| 1919 |
second book, A
l'ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs appeared
(delayed by WWI) and won the Prix Goncourt |
| 1922 |
died November 18 of pneumonia |
| 1923 |
La Prisonniere
published |
| 1925 |
Albertine Disparue
published |
| 1927 |
Le Temps Retrouve published |
| 1952 |
novel worked on 1895-1899 was
published as Jean Santeuil
(contains many of the themes to be explored later in A
la Rechere du Temps Perdu) |
