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Proustian, n. and a.|ˈpruːstɪən|
[f. the name of Marcel Proust, French writer (1871–1922), + -ian.]
A. n. An admirer or imitator of Proust.
1919R. Fry Let. 28 Oct. (1972) II. 464 I've..got Proust's second volume... I forget whether you are a Proustian or not. 1928Sunday Express 26 Feb. 5/2 If you desire to be a Jurgenist you must toil at Jurgenism as the Proustian toils at Proustery. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xiv. 183 You're a Proustian, I take it? 1958Times 6 Mar. 13/5 Proustians will be glad to have these ‘moves on the chess-board of Time’ in a volume that stimulates endless new ideas. 1973Listener 2 Aug. 155/3 An ardent Proustian who was trying to persuade me to..plunge into the full 12-volume fleuve.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Proust, his writings, or his style.
1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate i. 139 The decaying relics of feudalism..form the stormy background to the Proustian comedy. 1929[see imitation 5]. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Apr. 274/2 The Proustian distinction between ‘involuntary memory’..and ‘voluntary memory’. 1936L. P. Smith Reperusals & Re-Collections ii. 23 An immense leisurely, true novel, written with a Tolstoyan or Proustian amplitude, which allows space for an immense copiousness of detail and for infinite digressions. 1943J. Lees-Milne Ancestral Voices (1975) 186 Lady Crewe believes no relationship, no emotion, no motive to be straightforward, and suspects everything and everyone. This is truly Proustian. 1958Spectator 10 Jan. 51/1 Too often the adjective ‘Proustian’ evokes a kind of decadent Barsetshire. 1976A. Powell Infants of Spring viii. 123 A lack of interest for individuals in what might be called the Proustian sense was perhaps characteristic, too, of the whole of the Arts Society.
Hence ˈProustery nonce-wd., a Proustian manner; Proustiˈana, memorabilia of Proust.
1928Proustery [see Proustian n. above]. 1965Guardian 20 Dec. 6/5 She invited me to her home to see her Proustiana. 1973Times 4 Oct. 17/2 Considering the volume of Proustiana..it requires an artist's skill to pick out the white stones of this life and work. |