Marcel Proust (French, 1871 - 1922), was a novelist and critic best-known for his epic tome In Search of Lost Time, sometimes translated as Remembrance of Things Past (À la recherché du temps perdu), published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. The book comprised approximately 3,000 pages with 2,000 fictional characters and is considered a monumental literary achievement. Proust died of complications from pneumonia in 1922 and at the suggestion of Jean Cocteau, Man Ray photographed the writer postmortem, the day before he was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery.