Free eBook Swann's Way Remembrance Of Things Past, Volume One By Marcel Proust Translated From The French By C. K. Scott Moncrieff Valentin Louis Georges Eugne Marcel Prous known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century