Perdu

Folks, take it easy on Kristin -- we all knew the minute the "Perdu" column was posted, that she and Jean-Marc were torturing themselves further with all the "what-ifs" and "if-onlys" that their minds could create, and wagging your finger and saying you told them so at this point does nothing.

creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

Folks, take it easy on Kristin -- we all knew the minute the "Perdu" column was posted, that she and Jean-Marc were torturing themselves further with all the "what-ifs" and "if-onlys" that their minds could create, and wagging your finger and saying you told them so at this point does nothing.

creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

Taken into another song If "Perdu" was about down and out in Paris, this must be its London counterpart.

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New editions of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu have pushed overworked translators – a shy breed – into the spotlight.

The worldwide upsurge in demand for English versions of foreign bestsellers, coupled with the growing power of Google Translate, suggest we may be closer than ever to escaping the age of Babel 2011

My mother told me she read the whole of Proust's À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu in her youth, all 3,000-odd pages.

My Indian summer 2011

"Overall, the destruction is not as severe as I was worried it might be," said North Carolina governor Bev Perdu.

Hurricane Irene leaves US trail of destruction 1,100 miles long 2011

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

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

The Use of Opinion « Unknowing 2010

It is taken from Heinrich Heine's poem Enfant Perdu, whose first line runs, "Verlorner Posten in dem Freiheitskriege" Vacated positions in the war of freedom.

Christa Wolf obituary 2011

In Marcel Proust's "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," when the narrator contemplates a large fish being served for lunch, he perceives that the fish, with its "numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins," had been constructed "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep."

Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011