The Octopus by Frank Norris: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “(Models: Des Esseintes in Huysmans' À Rebours, Marius the Epicurean, Valéry's Monsieur Teste.)”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “Don't you remember the chapter in Marius where Pater talks of the gentle exercise of walking as the best incentive to conversation?”