Proust

[ proost; French proost ]

noun

1. Jo·seph Louis [zhaw-, zef, lwee], 1754–1826, French chemist.
2. Mar·cel [mahr-, sel, m, a, r, -, sel], 1871–1922, French novelist.

Proust

/ prust /

noun

1. ProustJoseph Louis17541826MFrenchSCIENCE: chemist Joseph Louis (ʒozɛf lwi). 1754–1826, French chemist, who formulated the law of constant proportions
2. ProustMarcel18711922MFrenchWRITING: novelist Marcel (marsɛl). 1871–1922, French novelist whose long novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27) deals with the relationship of the narrator to themes such as art, time, memory, and society

Example Sentences

In Orange County, Fla., close to 700 books — by authors as diverse as Marcel Proust and Amy Poehler — have been removed from school libraries.

From Los Angeles Times

"If you remember anything, the memory -- it's instant," Diba said, referencing a famous literary passage by French modernist writer Marcel Proust in which a childhood memory unspools a whole lost world of past experience at barely a moment's notice.

From Science Daily

A homage to the novelist Marcel Proust, the hotel features sumptuous spaces that conjure the Belle Époque and in them you’ll discover objects linked to the hotel’s namesake, including an autographed copy of “Swann’s Way.”

From New York Times

The trigger of the eponymous feud is the November 1975 publication in Esquire magazine of “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter of Capote’s very unfinished, way-past-deadline “Answered Prayers,” the social novel he predicted would be a “masterpiece” and liked to liken to Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.”

From Los Angeles Times

After Cambridge, she studied for two years in Paris, gaining a postgraduate degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and developing a love for the works of Marcel Proust and songs of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.

From BBC