Proustian

Adjective

Proustian (comparative more Proustian, superlative most Proustian)

1. Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, or his works.
   • The character played by French female lead Lea Seydoux is even called Madeleine Swann, a name whose Proustian double resonance can only be deliberate.2015, Stephen Dalton, “‘Spectre’: Film Review”, in Hollywood Reporter
2. Derived from personal memory, as it often happens in the works of Proust (for example, in the experience of the madeleine).
   • 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”.1994, Vera Mihailovich-Dickman, “Return”, in Post-Colonial Writing: A Cultural Labyrinth