“Hopefully this will then be a trigger for people to read up on Marcel Proust,” she said. Proust Barbie is responsible for one of the more esoteric gags in Barbie — and actress Lucy ...

Gerwig previously told IndieWire that the scene originally featured a joke about a fake Barbie inspired by Marcel Proust, the French writer whose sprawling epic "In Search of Lost Time" is ...

One of the only Barbies referenced that doesn't exist is Proust Barbie, a gag about a hypothetical doll based on French author Marcel Proust that comes after Barbie has a Proustian memory.