perdu

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Twenty years too late, Perdu is guilt- and grief-stricken.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2015

This type of associative memory was famously described by Marcel Proust in À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Marcel Proust used the changing seasons to vividly evoke time and mood in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2012

She was the presumed model for the great actress Berma in Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu – "Berma's interpretation was, around Racine's work, a second work, quickened also by the breath of genius."

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2010

The Perdu, as might have been expected when so many mysteries were credited to it, was commonly held to be bottomless.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir