...Sarah Bagley This essay reviews Jacqueline Rose’s Proust among the Nations and Christopher Prendergast’s Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic in light of the political implications of their readings of In Search of Lost Time . Rose skillfully investigates explicit references to anti-Semitism...

... of Proust and his Arcades Project ; in terms of cultural history, the rise of the crossword puzzle; and in terms of the sources behind Austerlitz , a book and a radio program that have been either ignored or underappreciated in the criticism. © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 This content is made...

... . Knausgaard Karl Ove . 2014 . My Struggle. Book Two . Translated by Bartlett Don . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . Knausgaard Karl Ove . 2015 . My Struggle. Book Three . Translated by Bartlett Don . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . Proust Marcel . 1988a...

... locate the possibility of fulfilled experience only in the singular poetic sphere: ‘‘Only a poet can be the ade- quate subject of such an experience’’ (SW, 4, ‘‘On Some Motifs in Baude- laire § 2). Even though Proust problematizes Bergson’s idea of experience by his elaboration of involuntary memory...

... “The Metamorphosis” and Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way—is an idea of awakening. And awakening, as a kind of active and actualizing remembrance—that is, a historical awakening—is under- stood naturally enough as something both given and achieved. To indicate briefly what is at issue in this thematic complex, I...

.... Zakir Paul is assistant professor of comparative literature at New York University, where he directs the Program in Poetics and Theory. His first book, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism , will appear in 2024. He has translated Maurice Blanchot's Political Writings...

... articles on modernist literature and cultural theory, and is currently at work on a book about Marcel Proust and Walter Benjamin. The article published here derives from her forthcoming book, The Senses of Mod- ernism...

... to whom one routinely compares him (Borges, Proust, Calvino, James, Nabokov, Conrad, Kafka, and Bernhard, the latter Sebald consid- ered as one of his influences). Or whether, after his dazzling moment in the sky, he becomes yet another of the thousands of interesting but dead stars. Will his absence...

...- vator operator in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, who is generally desig- nated “le lift” after the machine he runs in the snooty resort hotel at Balbec. Hailing from Monaco, small and ugly, he is a semi-outsider. Though never acknowledged as a racial Other, he is notable for his linguistic...

... are unique or unrepresentative. Proust didn’t worry about representing the nation. Per- haps that’s what gives him such purity. But even Proust was involved in the Dreyfus affair. We never want to say that our imagination is only about the upper classes. Tolstoy certainly didn’t. He created...

... of several thousand. Millennia later, Gérard Genette, in Narrative Discourse (Discours du récit), one-­ups Aristotle with panache, or chutzpah. He takes on Marcel Proust’s seven-­volume novel, In Search of Lost Time, an unseeably vast sandworm of a work, and gives its plot as, “Marcel becomes...

... Engels, Edgar Allan Poe and Gautier, Marcel Proust and Grandville—three novelists, three poets, three utopians, the two founders of dialectical materialism, a revolutionary, and a caricaturist. The references to Baudelaire...

... since 1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Peterson, Jennifer Lynn. Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Rose, Jacqueline. Proust among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East. Chi- cago...

... to the opening pages of Proust’s Swann’s Way, invoking the relation the process of dreaming and awakening bears to the intérieur, as Marcel, on awakening, would try to reconstruct both the structure of his own body and the shape...

.... Lucey, Michael. Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust. Q Series. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. MacKay, Marina. Modernism and World War II. New York and Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 2007. Mahaffey, Vicki. Modernist Literature...

... in the mud is a connection with the things themselves that we’ll never experience again and that we’re all the worse for it. In fact, isn’t adult life an attempt often to recover these experiences? Isn’t that what Proust is all about, to some extent? To see Gilberte as a girl once more holding her...

... Press, 2009. Carrier, David. Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art. American University Studies, Series XX, Fine Arts. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009. Cheah, Pheng, and Suzanne Guerlac, eds. Derrida and the Time of the Political. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009...

.... Sarah Bagley is an instructor in the English Department at the University of Pitts- burgh and is finishing her dissertation, “Past Love: The Modernist Nostalgias of Proust and Beckett.” Her research and teaching interests include the theory and history of nostalgia and memory, modernism...

.... As one can immediately judge by its subtitle, Auerbach’s book is by far the largest in scope and ambition out of all the other important critical works of the past half century. Its range covers literary masterpieces from Homer and the Old Testament right through to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust...

..., José David. Trans- Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Scott, Joan Wallach. The Fantasy of Feminist History. Durham, NC: Duke Univer- sity Press, 2012. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Ed...