WULO Book Club | From Remembrance to Remembrance: The story behind the publication of Proust's In Search of Lost Time

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From Remembrance to Remembrance: The story behind the publication of Proust's In Search of Lost Time

Speaker: Hugh, PhD student in Modern Literature at Paris VII University

Time: Wednesday, November 23 , 8 p.m.

Location: 43 Boulevard Haussmann , Wulo life

"The thirty volumes of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past are an incredible synthesis, combining the cohesion of a mystic, the skill of a prose master, the sharpness of a satirist, the erudition of a scholar, and the self-consciousness of a paranoid in one autobiographical work. As the saying goes, all great literary works establish or destroy a certain style, that is, they are exceptions. But among those exceptions, this work belongs to the most unfathomable category. Everything about it transcends the norm. In terms of structure, it is both a novel and an autobiography and a review. In terms of syntax, its sentences are endless, like a linguistic Nile, which overflows and irrigates the land of truth, and even more amazingly, What is strange is that this exceptional case also marks the highest literary achievement of the past few decades. The conditions under which this work was created were extremely unhealthy: extraordinary illness, extreme wealth, eccentric temperament. This was not an exemplary life in any respect, and yet it became a model in its entirety. The unique literary achievement of our time was destined to be born in the heart of impossibility. It is located at the center of all dangers and in a place of indifference. This marks this work, which took a lifetime of work, as a post-production of an era. The image of Proust is the superb aspect of the irresistibly widening gap between literature and life. This is why we should resort to this image.

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“When Michelangelo painted The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist was seen standing on a scaffold, with his head tilted back as he painted. In Marcel Proust, we see the same scaffolding rising again: it is his sickbed, on which Proust mysteriously spread his handwriting over countless pages; he lifted them into the air as if to celebrate the birth of his little universe.”

——Benjamin, The Image of Proust

November 18 this year marks the 100th anniversary of Proust's death. The National Library of France has specially held an exhibition entitled " Marcel Proust: la fabrique de l'œuvre ". The National Library has brought out nearly 370 manuscripts, paintings, photos, objects and clothing from the Proust collection in the library and other public and private collections, showing the audience how the author wrote "Remembrance of Things Past" from "Swann's Way" to "Time Regained" and how it was published and presented to the world.

This lecture will take this exhibition as an opportunity to walk into Proust’s creative world with everyone, understand the details of the author’s life and creative experience behind those finely woven texts, and look back at the confrontation between pain and desire, reason and emotion, balance and imbalance in "Remembrance of Things Past".

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