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The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
Mike Mills

Meaning of "Proustian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROUSTIAN

Proustian  [ˈpruːstɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROUSTIAN

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Proustian can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES PROUSTIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Proustian

Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

Definition of Proustian in the English dictionary

The definition of Proustian in the dictionary is of or relating to Marcel Proust, his works, or his style. Other definition of Proustian is an admirer of Marcel Proust's works.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROUSTIAN


anti-Christian
ˌæntɪˈkrɪstɪən
bastion
ˈbæstɪən
Brechtian
ˈbrɛxtɪən
chondrostian
kɒnˈdrɒstɪən
countian
ˈkaʊntɪən
demibastion
ˌdɛmɪˈbæstɪən
Erastian
ɛˈræstɪən
Faustian
ˈfaʊstɪən
fustian
ˈfʌstɪən
glasnostian
ɡlæsˈnɒstɪən
Judaeo-Christian
dʒuːˌdeɪəʊˈkrɪstɪən
Kantian
ˈkæntɪən
Lovecraftian
ˈlʌvˌkrɑːftɪən
Philistian
fɪˈlɪstɪən
Procrustean
prəʊˈkrʌstɪən
Shahaptian
ʃəˈhæptɪən
strontian
ˈstrɒntɪən
Tahitian
təˈhiːtɪən
teleostean
ˌtelɪˈɒstɪən
Thyestian
θaɪˈɛstɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROUSTIAN

Proudhon
proudish
proudly
proudness
prounion
Proust
proustite
Prout

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROUSTIAN

antichristian
Christian
Croatian
Dalmatian
Demochristian
dietitian
Early Christian
Egyptian
Gratian
Haitian
Laotian
Martian
Mauritian
non-Christian
pre-Christian
rumfustian
Sebastian
Serbo-Croatian
unchristian
Venetian

Synonyms and antonyms of Proustian in the English dictionary of synonyms

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proustiana
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Proustian
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Proustian
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proustiana
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Proustian
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Proustian
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Proustian
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Proustian
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Proustian
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proustiano
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proustowskiego
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Proustian
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Proustian
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Proustian
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Proustian

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3 QUOTES WITH «PROUSTIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Proustian.
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Daphne Guinness
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
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Todd Haynes
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
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Mike Mills
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROUSTIAN»

Discover the use of Proustian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Proustian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Proustian Quest
In Nature's Perfect FoodMelanie Dupuis illuminates these questions by telling the story of how Americans came to drink milk. We learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease became a staple of the American diet.
William C. Carter, 1992
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The Proustian Fabric: Associations of Memory
" Imbued with McDonald's discerning knowledge of Proust's intellectual and historical milieu, his compendious writing and his critics, The Proustian Fabric is one of the first books to take into account the rich variations of the new ...
Christie McDonald, 1991
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Carpentier's Proustian Fiction: The Influence of Marcel ...
Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.
Sally Harvey, 1994
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Metamorphoses of the Proustian body: a study of bodily signs ...
This enthrallment to error will not dissipate until the final revelations of Le Temps retrouve, where, on the threshold of discovering his artistic vocation, bodies acquire a new transparency for the hero, stripped of the myth-making power ...
Richard W. Saunders, 1994
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The Metaphysical Vision: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of ...
The Proustian equation - the Proustian solution We can now turn to one of the more cryptic elements of Beckett's Proust, viz the one which he uses to give an overall structure to his train of thoughts. The essay in total has the following form:  ...
Ulrich Pothast, 2008
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Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions
Translated by Anthony R. Pugh and Katherine Kolb one subject: involuntary memory The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed more than one substantial publication dealing with memory in Proust. I cite simply The Proustian Fabric by ...
Armine Kotin Mortimer, Katherine Kolb, 2002
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Proustian Passions: The Uses of Self-justification for A la ...
There is, however, a general tendency in writing on this novel to celebrate the wonders of the moi sensible uncritically. This effaces all that is morally dubious or frankly experimental about Proust's account of selfhood.
Ingrid Wassenaar, 2000
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Benjamin's Ground: New Readings of Walter Benjamin
One might call it the interior world of the narrator, but only on the condition that the narrator be considered the telescopic heart of the Proustian world, the arena of its day and night. In Benjamin's terms, the narrator is hardly mentioned: in the ...
Rainer Nägele, 1986
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The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime
Reading against the grain of an earlier modern tradition, this provocative postmodern critical tradition has broken new ground in Proustian analysis. This postmodern turn in Proustian scholarship was but one result of the contra-Marxist  ...
Stephen Gilbert Brown, 2012
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The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion
In "Zum Bilde Prousts," "Verschrankung" occurs in several formulations. Benjamin conceptualizes Proustian eternity as the clasping of time; within the context of spatial forms of "Verschrankung," temporality becomes operative. The bearer of ...
Beryl Schlossman, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROUSTIAN»

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The Pairings Are Proustian on Dominique Ansel's New Tasting Menu
NOTHING PUSHES OUR emotional buttons quite like sweets and liquor. That's the idea, anyway, behind U.P., pastry chef and cronut creator Dominique Ansel's ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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A Proustian take on Harper's 'aspirational' goal
Stephen Harper says Canada will no longer be burning fossil fuels by 2100. Well, sort of. His ambition about the elimination of fossil fuels is “aspirational,” the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
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Fond memories make fragrances a favorite
Such so-called "Proustian memories" are usually formed early in life and are thought of less frequently than recollections elicited by visual or verbal cues. «Medical Xpress, Jun 15»
4
Cannes Diary Day Two: A Weinstein Gathering, and a Proustian
Biting into a green tea macaron on the way out the door from the Weinstein first look party was not quite on the level of Proust's madeline but it was close. «Awards Daily, May 15»
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PEN World Voices festival: the 'Proustian orgasm' of memoir writing
Luc Sante, Michael Ondaatje and Tracy K Smith PEN World Voices Festival Luc Sante, Michael Ondaatje and Tracy K. Smith discuss memoir at the PEN World ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Memory and the Proustian power of bad music
But I've been surprised to discover that the songs that generate the most powerful and uncontrolled time-traveling momentum, the most evocative Proustian ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
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A Proustian Character
Without translators all but the omniglot among us would be hopelessly parochial. Even after having lived for decades off their labors, one struggles to name more ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
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Le Vieux's Old World Plates
So far, they've stuck to their old-school guns—from braised rabbit to cassoulet—but they've got a long way to go before the Proustian yum-factor brings us back ... «Portland Monthly, Feb 15»
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Meet This Year's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
In that sense, Patrick Modiano is a post-Proustian figure for a time later in the twentieth century when Proust's famous “temps perdu” (lost time) became what we ... «The New Republic, Oct 14»
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Working Out With Hefty Proustian Epics
It's time to get in shape for the summer reading season. NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Sally Franson to hear how readers can do a pre-beach workout while ... «NPR, May 14»

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