Marcel Proust: el rol de su enfermedad y la Medicina en la vida y obra del autor de “A la busca del tiempo perdido” a un siglo de su creación.

Resumen

Marcel Proust remains as the greatest french writer of the XX century and one of the best of all times. In his supreme work “In Search of lost time”, Proust demonstrated a great knowledge of medicine and specifically neurology. He was surrounding by doctors in his family and himself became in touch due to his asthma, wrongly considered as a manifestation of his “neurasthenia”, with many brilliant neurologists as Babinski and Sollier. He used as a literary tool the concept of emotional memory which is the basis of his work. Nearly a century since Proust began the elaboration of his masterpiece, this paper reviews important medical aspects of his life and the influence that medicine had on his work