But then you realize, while you're in it, that Proust is actually so much of his time it's incredible, and that what he's saying and doing was hugely innovative and exciting at the beginning of the last century, and actually, I'd say, remains as much so today. I think what I'm trying to get at is that the relevance of Proust's concerns to his time aren't immediately obvious because his approach to them initially seems so weird and unfamiliar. To be honest, I don't even know what 'modernism' means, I just know it sounds literary. Again, I'm not much of a scholar and what I'm saying probably doesn't make any sense. I mean, can I?īut then when you're in your mid-twenties someone suddenly plays you Television for the first time, and you're like what? Like you think you know what modernism is, it's like Ulysses or whatever, but then you find out it's got this completely insane cousin across the river who's just doing all these things that appear at first to have no relationship at all to everything you ignorantly thought you kind of understood at least a little bit before.
I took today off work because I need to put everything I own into boxes so I can move tomorrow, but obviously I can't begin doing that until I get some of these obsessive thoughts about Proust out of my system. In ciuda marii lui intinderi, epicul este punctul de rezistenta al romanului, el fiind substituit adesea de analiza minutioasa a unor senzatii si stari sau de notatii privind aristocratia in perioada ei de declin, viata saloanelor pariziene – de unde si latura evident sociala a intregului. Pornit “in cautarea propriei existente”, Proust recurge la procedeul memoriei involuntare, crezind, ca si Bergson, ca adevarul nu poate fi cunoscut prin procedeul obisnuit al ratiunii, ci numai prin sondarea timpului psihologic, categorie imposibil de divizat si aflata in permanenta curgere. Intentia autorului a fost de a reconstitui trecutul nu ca durata consumata, ci ca exercitiu de percepere afectiva a consistentei unei etape. Desi aparitia primului volum al romanului nu a fost apreciata de editurile franceze, care il considerau a fi un fapt literar complet lipsit de viitor, ulterior critica literara a convenit ca romanul proustian este o creatie cu aspecte autobiografice, de analiza psihologica, in maniera bergsoniana.
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