ABSTRACT
One of the most revered novelists of the 20th century, Marcel Proust possessed great literary, artistic, and musical sensibility. He was intro spective, emotionally sensitive, physically delicate, foppish, and averse to anything rough-and-tumble. Witty, verbal, and drawn to the man nered life of aristocratic salons, he was inordinately attached to his mother and sexually attracted to men. In short, it seems reasonable to describe Proust as “feminine.”
