Proust, photography, and the time of life : Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel

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Proust, photography, and the time of life : Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel

Suzanne Guerlac

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-233) and index

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Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust’s contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu). Challenging traditional interpretations, she argues that Proust’s magnum opus is not a melancholic text, but one that records the dynamic time of change and the complex vitality of the real. Situating Proust’s novel within a modernism of money, and broadening the exploration through references to cultural events and visual technologies (commercial photography, photojournalism, pornography, the regulation of prostitution, the Panama Scandal, and the Dreyfus Affair), this study reveals that Proust’s subject is not the esthetic recuperation of loss but rather the adventure of living in time, on both the individual and the social level, at a concrete historical moment.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction Part I: The Grandmother: Habit, Death and Photography 2.The Double Work of Habit 3.The Intermittent Photograph 4.Camera eyes: The Productive Estrangement of Mechanical Vision Part II: Albertine Breaks the Frame 5. Albertine Emerges from a Blurry Photograph 6. Making Memories (Bergson, not Benjamin). 7. Art and Life: Improvisation 8. Photographic logics and genres 9. Breaking the frame: Writing the Time of Life Part III: Odette (and Swann) – Social Time: Photography and Money 10. Swann’s Gift: Class, Money and Photography 11.The Facialization of Odette 11. Money 13. Social Symptoms: Desire and Money (Simmel and Proust) 14. The Two Fables of Proust’s Novel 15.Conclusion Bibliography

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