Time and Sense
Proust and the Experience of Literature
Julia Kristeva author Ross Guberman translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Publishing:14th Jan '25
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 14th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Julia Kristeva’s Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect on broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history.
What makes Time and Sense an important and enlivening book . . . is that Kristeva is a critic of great psychoanalytic insight who is also finely sensitive to the complex rhetorical and syntactical elaboration of Proust's world. -- Peter Brooks * New York Times Book Review *
Offers up a fresh and incisive reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. * Antioch Review *
Delivers a reading of Proust that rigorously and, at times, in startlingly original fashion, addresses the epic content and structure of Proust’s vision and language. . . . Kristeva’s exceptional work is worth all the effort it requires to wade through it. It marks time truly well-spent. * Modern Fiction Studies *
The most remarkable feature of Time and Sense, however, is Kristeva’s writing style. . . . The result is a highly literary effect, a poetically charged tribute to the Proustian sentence in a voice that is simultaneously that of Kristeva and Proust. * European Journal of Women’s Studies *
ISBN: 9780231216784
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442 pages