English

Adjective

Proustian ‎(comparative more Proustian, superlative most Proustian)

1. Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works.
2. (of pleasure) Derived from personal memory.

Quotations

• 1994 Vera Mihailovich-Dickman - "Return" in Post-Colonial Writing: A Cultural Labyrinth

  D'Costa's poems so far published also reverberate with an awareness of the past, and a gently Proustian pleasure, as in the elegiac “In Memorandum”

• 2015 Stephen Dalton - 'Spectre': Film Review

  The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate.

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