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(2017) Mourning and creativity in Proust, Dordrecht, Springer.
Time of death
alterity
pp. 31-86
This chapter concentrates on how a process of mourning changes the experience of time for the bereft. It presents the Recherche's portrayal of this transformed perception of time as mediated by the depiction of the body. After a theoretical opening section on the belatedness and anticipation of mourning in Freud and Nancy, this part focuses on three instances when Proust's narrative lends particular prominence to the body during a process of mourning, namely the narrator's touching of Albertine in the partie de furet game in A l"ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and subsequently after her death in Albertine disparue, the representation of the grandmother's sick body during her agony and death, and finally, the divulging of the narrator's own body throughout the novel.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60073-8_2
Full citation:
(2017). Time of death: alterity, in Mourning and creativity in Proust, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 31-86.