Meaning of Proustian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works.
2. Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine).

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Examples

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

“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”.”

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