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Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)

Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life By Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)

Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life by Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)

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Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life: Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel by Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)

Challenging traditional readings of Remembrance of Things Past, Suzanne Guerlac offers a unique angle on the text, arguing that Proust does not record the dead time of recollection, but the effervescent time of becoming and the complex vitality of the real as it was encapsulated by three philosophers contemporary with Proust, Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Georg Simmel. It is this openness to the present moment that makes it hard for both the fictional hero and Proust himself to stop writing. By placing Proust's novel within a web of money and contemporary popular culture such as commercial photography, photojournalism, pornography, the regulation of prostitution and the Dreyfus Affair, Guerlac reveals that Proust's motivation was not the recuperation of lost time, but the great adventure of living in the present moment, at a definite historical moment and on an individual and social level.

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The sensual prose of Suzanne Guerlac brings new life to Remembrance, grounded in a fascinating history of photographic art and creating unexpected connections with philosophers of the time. In an innovative way, Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life uses images to illustrate how the novelist draws his ideas from places where critics didn't think to look:business cards, blurry snapshots, photographs of coins, pornographic images... An intellectually subversive, and exhilarating book. * Anne Simon, Director of Research, The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France *
In this masterful book, Suzanne Guerlac not only challenges how we read Proust (already an ambitious task), she provides a new and convincing framework for understanding photography. Eschewing the by-now conventional references to Barthes and Benjamin, Guerlac asks us to rediscover the overlooked philosophers from Proust's era: Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel. * Patrick M. Bray, Associate Professor of French, University College London, UK *

About Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)

Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at Berkeley University, USA. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century literature, literature and philosophy and contemporary cultural criticism. Her publications include Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valery, Breton; "La Transgression et le reve de la theorie" in De Tel Quel a L'Infini; and "Maurice Barres et la poetique de l'Identite" in Revue des Sciences Humaines (2000).

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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Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life: Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel by Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)
Professor Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley University, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2020-11-12
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