The protagonist of a novel by this author compares the habits of a “neurasthenic” (“NEW-russ-THEE-nick”) relative to a “miserable” water lily that perpetually floats back and forth across a river. A book by this author opens with the narrator trying to watch a bee fertilizing an orchid, only to catch sight of a sexual encounter in a tailor’s shop. In Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (“BECK-dell”) theorizes that this author inspired her father’s love of lilacs. In a novel by this author, two lovers use the phrase “to do a cattleya (“CAT-lee-yuh”)” as a euphemism for sex after one rearranges the other’s corsage. The narrator of a novel by this author becomes obsessed with the pink hawthorn blossoms that line the path to the house of a man who associates his relationship with a “little phrase” in a sonata. For 10 points, Within a Budding Grove is a volume in what author’s novel In Search of Lost Time? ■END■
ANSWER: Marcel Proust [or Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust]
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