"Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth."
— Marcel Proust

January 1, 1970

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Graham Greene, as quoted in Sollars, Jennings, The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present (2008), p. v