..we must not forget that Proust inaugurated a new conception of temporality summarized and elaborated on the ambitions of all prior novelistic creations by crafting a sort of bildungsroman - a round-trip journey from past to present and back. -
Julia Kristeva, The Experience of Time Embodied
As I slowly progres on my work on Proust and sleep I suddenly realised how little I've actually posted on this blog. This is mainly due to one thing: To study Proust is all-absorbing!
I do not claim any specific talents with regard to literary criticism, but one thing I always insist on is the need to read any text thoroughly. Every word has to resonate within me before I can even pretend to write about a passage in a meaningful way. As with Proust this surely poses a problem. A la recherche du temps perdu simply requires a massive amount of time to digest.
Therefore in the following few weeks I intend to post various 'short commentaries on Proust' (as Adorno aptly entitled his miniature analyses). These will most likely take the form of either: reading lists or quotes with 'micro comments'.
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