Proust (In Our Time)
1913 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work Marcel Proust whose novel À La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or In Search of Lost Time, has been called the definitive modern novel. His stylistic innovation, sensory exploration and fascination with memory were to influence a whole body of thinkers, from the German intellectuals of the 1930s to the Bloomsbury set, chief among them Virginia Woolf, and innumerable critics and novelists since.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1913
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)