Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Vol. 4: 1918-1922
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was one of the handful of indisputably great writers of this century. Troubled by ill-health throughout his life, he largely withdrew from society in 1907, to work on his incomparable 16-volume novel In Search of Lost Time. He lived long enough to see the publication of its first volumes, and to experience its universal reception as a work of genius.