This writer spent the last years of his life almost a recluse, in a room lined with cork to shut out the noise, writing a work of more than three thousand pages that remained unfinished when he died in 1922. Who is he?
The answer
Marcel Proust wrote most of ‘In Search of Lost Time’ in his bedroom on the Rue Hamelin, its walls lined with cork to protect him from noise. He died in 1922 without having quite finished publishing his novel cycle, and rests in Division 85.
This question belongs to the “Writers and Poets” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.