That musician, (*) Vinteuil, appears in a novel that this man wrote in a cork-lined bedroom, whose first volume sees the narrator become obsessed with Albertine.
This author wrote poems depicting figures like Frederic Chopin and Antoine Watteau in his book Pleasures and Days and attacked biographically-influenced criticism in his essay collection Against Saint-Beuve. In one of this author's novels, a musician places sheet music in full view of a window in the hopes that someone will ask him to play. That musician, (*) Vinteuil, appears in a novel that this man wrote in a cork-lined bedroom, whose first volume sees the narrator become obsessed with Albertine. "Swann's Way" appears in the most famous work of, for 10 points, what French author who wrote about memories inspired by a tea-soaked madeleine in his novel In Search of Lost Time.
This author wrote poems depicting figures like Frederic Chopin and Antoine Watteau in his book Pleasures and Days and attacked biographically-influenced criticism in his essay collection Against Saint-Beuve.
Marcel {Proust} [or {Valentin Louis Georges Eugène} Marcel {Proust}]