Interpress - Rare Photography of Marcel Proust in 1891, with Jeanne Pouquet, at the boulevard Bineau tennis court in Neuilly-sur-Seine gelatin silver print Photography 1891 (or 1892) Interpress photo Photo is dated 9 mars 1988 Photo size: 17.7 cm x 12.7 cm Annotations an description on reverse Condition very good A very rare press photograph of Marcel Proust. Biogtaphy Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.