Proust ou la lecture comme expérience du Temps

• Autores: Luc Fraisse
• Localización: Studi francesi, ISSN 0039-2944, Nº. 189, 2019, págs. 485-495
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • It is striking to note how in Proust’s cycle of novels, the process of reading does not project the reader into the book that is being read, but leads rather to an extremely varied study of the act of reading itself, and principally of its duration. The very act of reading which is featured alongside the actual reading of a book, or indeed of a piece of music or a painting, can be broken down into several concurrent time-spans, which reflect the duration of real time as closely as possible. On a larger scale, the act of reading inaugurates an experience of time which can embrace and thus bring into contact the various chapters of the reader’s life, if a book is re-read after a long interval of time (and this separates Proust’s conception of time from that of Bergson). This duration is in its turn the measure of a work’s posterity, which rests on a continuity of successive reading-lives. Hence, readers only exist for Proust “in Time”, within a temporal dimension, that is in the form postulated a priori by Kant, of man’s perception of time.