Word: proustian
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French critics have hailed Charles Braibant for his "wholesome" qualities, have welcomed The Iron Mother because it is a "change" from the pathological novel of Proustian introspection. Yet, for all its vivid phrases, for all its objectivity, for all its wry humor, The Iron Mother welters in a family situation which can hardly be called wholesome and which should be pathological enough to suit even the most exacting of Freudians...
Plan of Resurrection is ingenious, Proustian-with a Gerhardi difference. Written in the undisguised first person (though the other characters have pseudonyms), it tells how a brief experience of roaming in his astral body set him buttonholing his acquaintances at a London ball, telling them all about...
There are various ways of looking at the past: through rose-colored spectacles, through the wrong end of a telescope, or- by an imaginative effort of which few are capable-face to face. Josephine Herbst's method is neither bespectacled nor telescopic, nor is it a personal, Proustian total-recall. Pity Is Not Enough is a medley of autobiographies, a family album of actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst...
...desperately unhappy with her?among other reasons, because he suspects her of Lesbian tendencies. She runs away from him and is killed in an accident. During the War the narrator takes refuge in a sanitarium, emerges to find his social world tottering, aged, ready for death. As U. S. Proustian Edmund Wilson epitomizes, "in the long last sentence of the book the word 'Time' begins to sound, and it closes the symphony as it began it'': "If, at least, there were granted me time enough to complete my work, I would not fail to stamp it with the seal...
Author Edmund Wilson admires Marcel Proust, shows it in this, his first novel. The theme that the outward world is shaped by the needs and predilections of the inward mind is Proustian. So is Author Wilson's style, in which emotional complexities are explored in complex sentences. As the sensitive, completely sincere attempt of a metropolitan to wrest form from his muddled environment, the novel is valuable...