Proust

Japanese: プルースト

French author. His father, Adrien, was the Superintendent General of Hygiene and a professor of hygiene at the University of Paris. His mother was from a Jewish merchant family. He suffered from asthma from the age of nine throughout his life. After entering the law school at the University of Paris, he frequented high society and literary salons, published a collection of lyrical short essays called Pleasures and Days (1896), and translated Ruskin, continuing his literary explorations. The death of his beloved mother in 1905 marked a turning point for him, and he conceived his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, which he continued to write until a few days before his death, despite his ill health. Of the seven stories in total, the fifth and subsequent stories were published posthumously. This work ushered in a new era of 20th-century novels, and had a great influence on authors both in Japan and abroad. His other works include the unfinished autobiographical novel Jean Santeuil and a collection of essays Against Sainte-Beuve.
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Proust

French chemist. In 1789, he became director of the Royal Experimental Laboratory in Madrid, Spain. In 1799, he proposed the law of definite proportions through quantitative analysis. He is famous for his long-running debate with Berthollet, who claimed that the composition of a compound changes continuously.
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フランスの作家。父アドリアンは衛生局総監，パリ大学衛生学教授。母はユダヤ系商家の出。９歳から生涯喘息(ぜんそく)に苦しめられた。パリ大学法科入学後，社交界や文学サロンに出入りし，抒情的な短文集《愉しみと日々》（1896年）を出版したり，ラスキンを翻訳して文学的模索を続けた。1905年最愛の母の死が転機となって，大作《失われた時を求めて》を構想，病身をおして死の数日前まで執筆を続けた。全７編のうち第５編以後は死後の刊。この作品は20世紀の小説の新時代を開き，内外の作家に多大な影響を与えた。他に未完の自伝的小説《ジャン・サントゥイユ》，評論集《サント・ブーブに反論する》など。
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