The English translation of acclaimed critic and psychoanalyst Kristeva's investigation into the space and time continuum in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past . She reflects on notions of character, time sensation, metaphor, and history as they are reflected in Proust's prose. Her central thesis revolves around the author's suspension of time as a way of delaying death, even as he connects his characters to the significant event of the era: World War I, the Dreyfus affair, anti-Semitism, and struggles over national identity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
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Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Tales of Love and the novel, Possessions.
