Word: proustians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence, fantasy and oblivion...
Painter's approach to Proust is Proustian. He has set himself the surgical task of opening the novelist's oeuvre to its core. Each character, every place name, is methodically traced to its source or sources in Proust's environment. To most biographers, Albertine, with whom the novel's narrator Marcel dallies on the Normandy coast and in Paris, is a collage of the young men in Proust's homosexual life. Painter restores Albertine's sex by suggesting that she also embodies at least three women...
...subtle achievement to have described their lives with compassion but without sentimentality. His style is graceful, disciplined, direct. Occasional Italicisms will distract American readers, and few of the characters are drawn in detail. But Bassani's principal concern is with mood and meaning, and his leisurely, Proustian sentences brush and burnish a world of unexpected symbols. Although the novel is about Jews, it is only incidentally about Jewishness; the Finzi-Continis' confrontation with Fascism is employed to expose a painful paradox: life can be understood only in the past, but only in the present can it be lived...
JAKE: Oh, the drama of it all! From the bottomless pit of my heart, I will urge each and everybody I know to see this lambent, coruscating, sinewy, Proustian, visually exacerbating film. All it needs to be perfect is Rita Tushingham...
...Museum attributes the renewal to the cyclical rhythm in art taste: "Art nouveau is easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern architecture...