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Proust (disambiguation)

Proust commonly refers to the French author Marcel Proust (1871–1922).

Proust may also refer to:

People
  • Joseph Proust (1754–1826), French chemist, responsible for the Law of definite proportions
  • Antonin Proust (1832–1905), French journalist and politician
  • Jean-Paul Proust (1940–2010), former Minister of State of Monaco
Other uses
  • Proust (Beckett essay) (1931), an essay by Samuel Beckett
  • Proust Questionnaire, a personality test
  • 4474 Proust, a main-belt asteroid
Proust
  1. redirect Marcel Proust
Proust (Beckett essay)

Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, from 1930, is an aesthetic and epistemological manifesto, which is more concerned with Beckett's influences and preoccupations than with its ostensible subject.

Usage examples of "proust".

Orphu had downloaded the French language in all of its classic intricacies along with the novel and biographical information on Proust, but Mahnmut ended up reading the book in five English translations because English was the lost language he had concentrated his own studies in over the past e-century and a half and he felt more comfortable judging literature in it.

For Marcel Proust, whose fifteen-volume A la Recherche du Temps Perdu is a long-drawn-out struggle to recall and thus to transcend a painful past, the trigger which evokes the entire history is the taste of a madeleine cake.

The Chargé was a droll, well-to-do Bostonian who had spent a lifetime reading Proust and playing croquet.

This analysis of the mental process had an important influence on many twentieth-century writers, especially Marcel Proust and James Joyce, who both developed further the technique known as interior monologue or stream of consciousness.

ROBERT PROUST retrieved the letters from his private post box at the Capucines Station and rushed back to the privacy of his apartment.

Just think, I could be at my house with a nice glass of Viognier in front of a blazing fire reading Proust instead of skipping merrily through the environs of Bowlington, North Carolina, while dodging police choppers.