Word: proust
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Professor Kluckhohn pointed out that the works of Proust offer insight on human behavior and that the books of Alexis de Tocqueville are invaluable in formulating general theories of social science...
...without the friendships he had painfully made at Harvard, Oppenheimer was soon deep in depression and doubt. He convinced himself that he could no longer postpone "the problem of growing up." He read Dostoevsky, Proust and Aquinas and explored the defects in his own character. At Christmas time, walking by the shore near Cancale in Brittany, "I was on the point of bumping myself off. This was chronic." He came out of this period of self-examination, he now feels, "much kinder and more tolerant-able to form satisfactory, sensible attachments...
...will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...
...Pleasures and Regrets is read in anticipation of a masterpiece to come, it has considerable interest. In its pale pieces can be found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...