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George Duncan Painter
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Assistant Keeper in charge of incunabula, Department of Printed Books, British Library, London, 1954–74. Author of Proust: The Early Years; Proust: The Later Years; and others.

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Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust was a French novelist and the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life. The novel explores its subject matter from a psychological and allegorical standpoint and is considered a masterpiece of modern…
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