From A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922, by Richard Davenport-HinesHANKERING
"Proust hankered to understand Relativity. 'How I should like to talk to you about Einstein!' he exclaimed to his scientifically-informed friend Armand de Guiche. 'They may write that I derive from him, or he from me, but I don't understand a single word of his theories, as I do not know algebra. I doubt for his part he has read my novels. We have, though, it seems, a similar way of distorting Time.'"
From Chapter 7, My Awful Clairvoyance
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