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Recherche, (re-)search: do I research to find something not yet found or do I re-search back to find something that has been lost? These two directionalities structure Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu and are reflected in its reception. But what if they only seem mutually exclusive, yet really are one and the same thing?
Keywords: Marcel Proust; time; iteration; teleology; artistic creation
Title
Recherche I
Author(s)
Julie Gaillard
Identifier
Description
Recherche, (re-)search: do I research to find something not yet found or do I re-search back to find something that has been lost? These two directionalities structure Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu and are reflected in its reception. But what if they only seem mutually exclusive, yet really are one and the same thing?
Is Part Of
Re-
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
22 January 2019
Subject
Marcel Proust
time
iteration
teleology
artistic creation
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
1
page end
10
Source
Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 1–10

References

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  • Mecchia, Giuseppina, ‘Proustiens, encore un effort…! La déconstruction de l’inceste maternel dans À la recherche du temps perdu’, French Forum, 31.3 (Fall 2006), pp. 77–96 <https://doi.org/10.1353/frf.2007.0027>
  • Proust, Marcel, À la recherche du temps perdu, 7 vols, ed. by Jean-Yves Tadié and others (Paris: Gallimard, 1988–90), in English as In Search of Lost Time, 6 vols, trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, rev. by D. J. Enright (New York: Modern Library, 1992)
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Cite as: Julie Gaillard, ‘Recherche I’, in Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 1-10 <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-15_02>