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.
Kristeva as always brings a resourceful and sophisticated theoretical awareness to her interpretive work. By translating much of Proust´s post-symbolic discourse on literature into her own psychoanalytic idiom, she invites us to reread him with an innocence and an enthusiasm that today, in this age of suspicion we call our own, are becoming rare.
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Release
April 16, 1998
ISBN
0231102518
ISBN 13
9780231102513
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature
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.
Kristeva as always brings a resourceful and sophisticated theoretical awareness to her interpretive work. By translating much of Proust´s post-symbolic discourse on literature into her own psychoanalytic idiom, she invites us to reread him with an innocence and an enthusiasm that today, in this age of suspicion we call our own, are becoming rare.