Usage examples of "proustian".
French professors used to drive me mad by claiming that reading Proust was itself a Proustian exercise, that each time he picked up a volume, all of them came bubbling up back into existence, including his memories of his past reading.
Like the syllables of the Proustian name, the last word is multiply motivated.
Each encounter with his adolescent and, later, even younger self summons a Proustian recall of the world those earlier Frannies inhabited.
Of course you could write a Proustian novel about the jet set, about money and fame-a major star brought face to face with a literary legend.
Luther tasted like Binaca and champagne, a Proustian moment that made me feel as though the years since law school had never happened.
Can we, in short, have a personal or Proustian physiology, over and above the mechanical, Sherringtonian one?
And Danilo Kis provides precise, poetic description that verges on the exhaustive, lending his novels a Proustian or Nabokovian air, particularly in the items he makes memorable: a book, a flower, a celluloid collar.
It was a sort of Proustian discourse on the sinuosity of time and consciousness.