This author wrote about a man who pursues Albertine and Gilberte.
One of this novelist's books opens by discussing the laws of the vegetable kingdom and describes a sexual encounter between the Baron de Charlus and Jupien. His characters include a composer that creates a violin and piano sonata whose theme incorporates his daughter's lesbian love. One of his novels begins with an "overture" in which the narrator is unable to go to sleep because he has not received a (*) kiss from his mother. This author wrote about a man who pursues Albertine and Gilberte. The second half of one of his novels concerns a man who madly pursues Odette de Crecy. He wrote about how a madeleine soaked in lime-blossom tea triggered involuntary memory in his novel Swann's Way, the first part of a 7-novel sequence. For 10 points, name this author of In Search of Lost Time.
One of this novelist's books opens by discussing the laws of the vegetable kingdom and describes a sexual encounter between the Baron de Charlus and Jupien.
Marcel Proust