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Marcel Proust in the Light of William James - In Search of a Lost Source (Paperback)
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Marcel Proust in the Light of William James - In Search of a Lost Source (Paperback)
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For a century now, scholars have searched for the "source" of
Marcel Proust's startlingly innovative novel A la recherche du
temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or
Paul Sollier. Others have referenced the novels of Henry James. But
no one has focused on the more significant influence of the
writings of Henry's older brother, the psychologist and Harvard
professor William James. A close comparison reveals the degree to
which Proust's novel stems from James's psychological and
philosophical theories. William James was a prominent member of the
scientific, medical and philosophical communities in Proust's Paris
and was close friends with two men well known to Proust. His works
were translated into French and reviewed in French journals and
newspapers. This book discloses how Proust likely became familiar
with William James and illustrates how James's writings were key to
Proust's ability to craft the book he had been trying to write,
extending even to his use of similar language and imagery and a
narrative schema that arguably mimics James's descriptions of
consciousness, perception, and memory. Proust's hero assiduously
explores the vague, uncertain, relational aspects of experience,
the trials and comforts of habit, the salvational potential of
memory, the "moral" aspects of personal history teeming with
impression and desire-these are the truths of human psychology and
behavior theorized by William James and made fictional flesh in
Proust's rendition of lived experience.
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