How To Use Proust In A Sentence
- As I say `I tasted', I taste, and as I say `I heard', I hear: I am not talking about a Proustian moment, but a Proustian cine-film. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
- Often referred to as a Proustian painter because he painted from memory rather than from life, Bonnard is even more a Jamesian one. The Nation: Top Stories
- To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous. Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
- We can speak of encountering, sometimes in the most unlikely settings, dynamics most succinctly described as "Proustian," "Austenesque" and "Kafkan. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Proust memorialized his infatuation with her beauty and social grace in the character of the Duchesse de Guermantes.
- We sit in the autumn sunshine completing the Proust questionnaire which seems to bring his mischievous side out from behind his establishment façade. Times, Sunday Times
- To this day, the smell of sawdust is my Proustian madeleine: it brings back a life. The Dark Side of Innocence
- In one of the most famous scenes in literature, for instance, boredom takes time. Marcel Proust describes his protagonist, Marcel, dunking a madeleine cookie into his teacup.
- What is difficult to translate and what I specifically concentrated on in my review were moments where Proust describes as minutely as possible, and as no one had ever done before or after him, the psychological currents that run between one person and another, between those who do not wish to reveal anything about themselves and the narrator who is forever deciphering their hidden motives. 'Proust's Way?': An Exchange
- However, this is likely to become the definitive English version of Proust, and the endless arguments about the niceties of translation are perhaps of real concern only to very few.
