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Where Mem'ry Dwells
Where Mem'ry Dwells
A semester reading Proust
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Proust in Translation
— In Defense of Reading the New Translation The legitimacy of C.K Scott Moncrieff, the original translator of Proust’s In Search of Lost...
Proust's Background
What is the relationship between art and the world around us? Is art a background to reality, or reality the background to art? Does art...
Proust on Perception, Memory, and Art
Throughout Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust contemplates the nature of reality and our interpretations of it. Whether Proust delivers a...
Proust on Authors, Writing, and Reading
In Proust's In Search of Lost Time, the young narrator suggests that his first experience of writing is like a hen laying an egg, that...
Proust and Friends
Throughout In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s narrator makes several statements declaring his aversion to the idea of friendship. He...
Proust's Social Worlds: Performing the Self
The social worlds of the novel are an important element, not just empty space or wasted time between moments of inspiration. In fact,...
Static Flux: Timeless Truths When Everyone Changes
Spoiler Alert: This post is best read when one has finished the majority of the novel. Warning: These posts contain references to...
Deceit and Desire in Proust
The French historical philosopher and anthropologist Rene Girard believes that all of our desires are stolen from others. In his book,...
Psychology, Neuroscience, and Memory in Proust
In Search of Lost Time is a work of memory exploration. In writing it, Proust illuminated much of how we experience memory and preceded...
Whose Sonata? Music in Proust
In Proust as Musician, French author and musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez argues that the narrative of In Search of Lost Time is...
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