Noted literary critic, psychoanalyst, and theorist Julia
Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of
Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past, " just delivered at the 1992
T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Canterbury. Kristeva's first essay,
"Proust and Time Embodied," takes a broadly psychoanalytical,
linguistically sensitive approach to Proust's exploration of time
and the operation of memory. Next in "In Search of Madeline," she
delves into Proust's concept of the little cake that flooded him
with the taste of childhood regained, providing an explanation for
Proust's search for the deeper levels of childhood grounded in her
psychoanalytic experience. Throughout "Proust and the Sense of
Time, " Kristeva draws on Proust's notebooks and manuscripts,
pointing out significant variations in the different versions of
his work. She examines his early philosophical training and the
philosophical trends in Paris at the turn of the century, seeking
to explain how he his concept of the primacy of memory and
sensation.
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