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Proustian
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English
Etymology
From en fr Proust en ian.
Pronunciation
en /ˈpɹuːstɪ.ən/ UK
en /ˈpɹusti.ən/ US
Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works.
en 2015 Stephen Dalton http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/spectre-film-review-833833 ‘Spectre’: Film Review Hollywood Reporter The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417015519/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/spectre-film-review-833833 17 April 2021
Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine).
en 1994 Vera Mihailovich-Dickman Return 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”.
Derived terms
en Proustian moment
Translations
reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works
Catalan: ca proustià
Czech: cs proustovský
Finnish: fi proustilainen
French: fr proustien
German: de proustisch, de proustianisch
Greek: el προυστικός
Hungarian: hu prousti
Italian: it proustiano
Polish: pl proustowski
Russian: ru пру́стовский, ru пру́стский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh пру̏стовскӣ
Latin: sh prȕstovskī
Spanish: es proustiano
Anagrams
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