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Reading in Proust's A la recherche - le delire de la lecture' (Hardcover)
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Reading in Proust's A la recherche - le delire de la lecture' (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's
A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new
study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it.
After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act
of reading as revelatory and potentially traumatic, the book then
identifies and examines the interwoven strands of the novel's
narrative of reading: showing that scenes where the narrator reads
and where others provide 'lessons in reading' are intricately
connected within the narrator's ever unfolding considerations of
intelligence, sense experience, knowledge, and desire. These acts
of reading, often bewildering the narrator with their mix of
illuminations, wrong turns and over-determinations, lead us to
interrogate our own understanding of the act we accomplish as we
read A la recherche. This book emphasizes the complexities and
contradictions with which reading (always inescapably an engagement
of both mind and body) is driven, and which connect it repeatedly
to the experience of involuntary memory. Reading is shown to be
frequently fraught with heady instability-'delire'-of a highly
revealing sort, from which narrator and readers alike have much to
learn. The book's final chapter shows how the narrator's critical
energies, turned contemplatively inwards in the Guermantes'
library, are subsequently turned outwards for a final interpretive
effort-the reading of his now aged acquaintances at the 'Bal de
tetes'-in a shift that provides the narrator not only the
confidence to begin his work of art, but also the humility to face,
undeterred, the approach of death."
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