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"Unlike most fiction writers, Proust was trained in philosophy. In fact, he even considered writing a philosophical treatise instead of the novel we know so well. This hesitation about what form his writing should take still haunts his final choice of a novel, which is both philosophical, and yet, not philosophy. Take your pick of philosophers, from Plato to Nietzsche, and you can easily find an essay or even a book arguing that this particular philosopher most applies to Proust. But as one plunges into the narrative that he finally wrote, one is struck by the fact that In Search of Lost Time feels nothing like what we often call a philosophical novel, or even, a novel of ideas. Instead, philosophical reflection lies in the shadows of his fictional world, a sort of parallel life that can be found in the underweave"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Proust's In Search of Lost Time -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Why a Novel? -- 2. Biography: Proust's Parallel Lives -- 3. The Origins and Ends of Music: Proust Counters Rousseau -- 4. Proust's Intermittent Seriality, or What Is a Literary Event? -- 5. Swann's Medical Philosophy -- 6. The Shadow of Love: The Role of Jealousy in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu -- 7. In Search of Lost Weather -- 8. Proust's Consciousness -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel)
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Oxford studies in philosophy and literature