Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.
John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature|Malcolm Forbes|November 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Proust is, in addition to everything else, very funny; much funnier, in fact, than all those New Yorker cartoons.
Proustapalooza: Going Crazy for Marcel’s Novel at 100|Elisabeth Ladenson|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Proust was himself, to a great extent, responsible for this.
Proustapalooza: Going Crazy for Marcel’s Novel at 100|Elisabeth Ladenson|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The title poem rushes forward with a gorgeous hydraulic motion, as if Proust had been sped up and turned into a Town Car.
Wayne Koestenbaum’s Book Bag: The Best of the ’80s|Wayne Koestenbaum|August 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Proust liked to have two cups with milk, but Auden, quite to the contrary, only took one.
What Do Great Artists’ Routines Reveal?|Alexander Aciman|May 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Other chemists suppose that the hordeine of Proust is merely a mixture of the bran of the barley with starch and gluten.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
According to Proust hordeine is a yellowish powder, not unlike fine saw-dust.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
The peculiar associated impulses are specially clear in the cases of Proust and Mesnet.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology|C. G. Jung
Proust has lately announced the discovery of a native sulphuret of manganese.
The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World|Thomas Wood
Next we may mention two cases reported by Dr. Proust and M. Boeteau.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers
British Dictionary definitions for Proust
Proust
/ (Frenchprust) /
noun
Joseph Louis (ʒozɛf lwi). 1754–1826, French chemist, who formulated the law of constant proportions
Marcel (marsɛl). 1871–1922, French novelist whose long novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27) deals with the relationship of the narrator to themes such as art, time, memory, and society