Recherche

Similarly, Proust's Recherche is a fascinating post-Wellsian time-travel story; and Jonathan Littell's Kindly Ones a large-scale exercise in, or deconstruction of, Edgar Rice Burroughsian adventure.

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They remained at anchor a week, and the officers made many excursions to the islands now known as the Recherche Archipelago.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876

Could it be that one dies, as well, of not having found his "Recherche" and to have remained, until the very end, a character seeking a purpose?

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It's right there on page 226, the infamous Gestapo muff-diving scene, as famous in its genre of mindless beach-reading as Gatsby at the end of the dock, the madeleines in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, Hawthorne's scarlet letter.

Nazi Muff-Diving: It Could've Happened Here Con Chapman 2011

Vincent Corbel from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Montpellier, and Bruno Lapied from the University of Angers, France, led a team of researchers who investigated the mode of action and toxicity of deet (N, N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide).

Boing Boing 2009

If you can't manage that, then hire a convertible two-seater and get your significant other to wear goggles, kinky rubber coat and close-fitting aviator's hat while you shout relevant passages from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu from the passenger seat.

Classic France: the insiders' guide 2011

Rick Perry, another pol with his eyes on the prize, never goes to the beach without one of the seven volumes that make up Marcel Proust's daunting "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu."

Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

After having been Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1945), he became the first High Commissioner for Atomic Energy (1946); he directed the construction of the first French atomic pile (1948).

Joliot, Frédéric 2009

He is first and foremost a botanist, having ascended the academic ladder to France's prestigious Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, where he works today (his specialty is plant life on the dim forest floor).

Private Eye Joshua Levine 2010

It is more realistic than A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, to which it is often compared, and much funnier.

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