My mom picked me up this book at a yardsale today, who was this nigga?

Some fucking dude, man.

Wikipedia-

Begun in 1909 and finished just before his death, In Search of Lost Time consists of seven volumes spanning some 3,200 pages and teeming with more than 2,000 characters. Graham Greene called Proust the "greatest novelist of the 20th century", and Somerset Maugham called the novel the "greatest fiction to date". Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the last volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert.

In 1995, Penguin undertook a fresh translation of In Search of Lost Time by editor Christopher Prendergast and seven translators in three countries, based on the latest and most authoritative French text. Its six volumes were published in Britain under the Allen Lane imprint in 2002. The first four (those which under American copyright law are in the public domain) have since been published in the U.S. under the Viking imprint and in paperback under the Penguin Classics imprint.

I haven't come across his writing yet, looks to be a hell of a task.