"In Search of Lost Time"

C. K. Scott-Moncrieff male, deceased (1930): British Military, World War I, writer, Scottish, British, French-English translator…InSearchofLostTime, Remembrance of Things Past; Charles Kenneth (C.K.) Scott-Moncrieff was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's "À la recherche du temps p...

Walter Benjamin male, deceased (1940): cultural critic, Essayist, Literary critic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy…InSearchofLostTime, cause of death disputed, Philosopher of language, The Task of the Translator, metropolitan museum of art; Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...

Françoise Sagan female, deceased (2004): Cajarc, Aveyron, Women novelist, French women writer, Women dramatists and playwright, Death from pulmonary embolism, Aveyron…InSearchofLostTime, The Sounds of Silence; Françoise Sagan, real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter, best known for strong romantic themes involving mi...

Robert de Montesquiou male, deceased (1921): pavane, dandy, homosexuality, French nobility, symbolist, poet…InSearchofLostTime; Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac, was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he...

Jacqueline Rose female, 60 years old: University of Paris, boycott of the Israeli academic community, À la recherche du temps perdu, Albertine, Academic of Queen Mary, University of London, InSearchofLostTime…London Review of Books, Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Queen Mary, University of London, University of London, Academic boycotts of Israel; Jacqueline Rose is a British academic who is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Rose is probably best known for her work on...

Yaakov Shabtai male, deceased (1981): Posthumous work, death by myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction, Agnon Prize, tel aviv, proust…InSearchofLostTime, A Circus in Tel Aviv; Yaakov Shabtai was an Israeli novelist, playwright and translator, born in Tel Aviv. His best known work is "Zikhron Devarim" (1977), published in...

Marie-Laure de Noailles female, deceased (1970): Mystery of the Chateau of Dice, L'Age d'Or, Luis Bunuel, The Blood of a Poet, Aubade, duc de Mouchy…InSearchofLostTime, metropolitan museum of art; Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles, was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with...

Alice Heine female, deceased (1925): Napoleon III’s war with Prussia, Marie Alice Heine, Albert I of Monaco, Duchess of Richelieu, HSH the Princess of Monaco, Napoleon’s war with Prussia…Rainier III of Monaco, InSearchofLostTime, House of Grimaldi; Alice Heine (February 10, 1858 - December 22, 1925), styled HSH the Princess of Monaco and the Duchess of Richelieu, was the American-born second...

Jules Cotard male, deceased (1889): Neuroscientist, franco-prussian war, French, Neurologist, Diabetes, medicine…InSearchofLostTime; Jules Cotard was a French neurologist who is best known for first describing the Cotard delusion, a patient's delusional belief that they are dead,...

Gunnel Vallquist female, 91 years old: Catholic, writer, swedish, Member of the Swedish Academy, Second Vatican Council, Swedish Academy…InSearchofLostTime; Gunnel Vallquist (born 19 June 1918), Swedish writer and translator, Vallquist was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1982. Gunnel Vallquist...

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