A Missing Boulevard in Versailles
Reading Time in Proust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4920376 |
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| Authors | James Brusseau (0000-0002-9393-7788, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684905 |
| OpenAlex | W2324679371 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
LINEAR TIME CHARACTERIZES HISTORIES. Not only the anonymous stories of cities and countries, but also individual histories-biographies. In Proust: The Early Years, George Painter describes Proust being driven through Illiers (Combray) with his ageing father. The carriage grates slowly on the cobblestone square. Father points at a small shop front, the store where grandfather sold candles and tapers. A twist of smoke diffuses above the roof's single chimney. Father remembers rarely having coal. (3) It is a long way from these store-top rooms to the modern Paris apartment they live in. But the carriage can never be pulled far enough to be away. Departure, teleology, arrival, project, progress; the words surround linear time. Their temporality depends upon an unbroken continuity stretching between beginning and end. Nietzsche calls this cursive time. It is the time of writing. The temporality a sentence pursues in conveying meaning
Archaeology · Art · Boulevard · Geography · Political science · Reading (process) · French Literature and Critical Theory · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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