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Dying for Time - Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Hardcover)
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Dying for Time - Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Hardcover)
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Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the
art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time.
Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire
to transcend time-whether through an epiphany of memory, an
immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin
Hagglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading
entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to
transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the
investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hagglund
offers in-depth analyses of Proust's Recherche, Woolf's Mrs.
Dalloway, and Nabokov's Ada. Through his readings of literary
works, Hagglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in
the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and
survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art.
Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between
time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan,
addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment
and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of
desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.
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