Word: proustian
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...written in 1934, is an autobiographical reverie evoking the summer of 1914, "that last summer when life still appeared to pay heed to individuals, and when it was easier and more natural to love than to hate." Of the earlier tales, only The Childhood of Luvers, a sensitively wrought, Proustian account of a girl at puberty accepting her womanhood, is memorable...
...coming to the U.S. in 1940, Nabokov has divided his time among teaching, lepidopterology (he is a professional collector with several unique butterfly specimens to his credit) and a brilliant new literary career in which he has evolved a vivid English style which combines Joycean word play with a Proustian evocation of mood and setting...
...must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled the series of paintings that attempted in a Proustian way to be a single work of art, was perhaps even more successful in fulfilling the artist's wishes...
...hands, and he managed to piece together a novel "the existence of which nobody had so much as suspected." Jean Santeuil, written between 1896 and 1900, now appears in English translation for the first time-to the stately booming of literary big shots and the high salutations of Proustian fifers...
...moving, Proustian story of first love between a nine-year-old boy and girl...