The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate.
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Proustian
//ˈpɹusti.ən//
Synonyms for "proustian"
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2 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 12 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- proustià adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Czech
1 entries- proustovský adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Finnish
1 entries- proustilainen adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
French
1 entries- proustien adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
German
2 entries- proustianisch adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
- proustisch adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Greek
1 entries- προυστικός adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Hungarian
1 entries- prousti adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Italian
1 entries- proustiano adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Polish
1 entries- proustowski adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Russian
2 entries- пру́стовский adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
- пру́стский adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prȕstovskī adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
- пру̏стовскӣ adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Spanish
1 entries- proustiano adj (reminiscent of Marcel Proust or his works)
Sample sentences
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D'Costa's poems so far published also reverberate with an awareness of the past, and a gently Proustian pleasure, as in the elegiac “In Memorandum”.
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