In the essay "A propos du 'style' de Flaubert," this author admitted to disagreeing with Flaubert's conclusions but nonetheless admiring his dialect.  He translated John Ruskin's Bible of Amiens and Sesame and Lilies, without knowing much English, and gradually retreated fro
In the essay "A propos du 'style' de Flaubert," this author admitted to disagreeing with Flaubert's conclusions but nonetheless admiring his dialect.  He translated John Ruskin's Bible of Amiens and Sesame and Lilies, without knowing much English, and gradually retreated from his high society life into a soundproof room in order to begin his greatest work.  That work contains a variety of characters including Odette, the woman the protagonist eventually marries, the homosexual Baron de Charlus, and the lesbian Albertine who dies in a riding accident.  The protagonist of that work, published in seven volumes, has the same name as the author, and the work is better translated as In Search of Lost Time.  For 10 points, name this French author of Remembrance of Things Past.
In the essay "A propos du 'style' de Flaubert," this author admitted to disagreeing with Flaubert's conclusions but nonetheless admiring his dialect.  
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel {Proust}