En quête des odeurs du passé : de la mémoire involontaire dans l’oeuvre proustienne

• Authors: Anna Ledwina
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Searching for the Smells of the Past – Affective Memory in Novels by Marcel Proust Marcel Proust’s epic work In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Thing Past) shows an innovative way of practicing literature as the artist’s struggle with time. This series of works, earning the author a place in the literary pantheon, depicts the writer’s desire to rediscover intensity with which he used to experience sensory stimuli and his wish to return to the happy times of his childhood and youth. This explains the special role of emotional memory that characterises Proust’s monumental work. The complex perceptual and cognitive mechanism of the narrator becomes the keynote of the work, which is saturated with smells of the past, with a clear dominance of subjective perception and description of the remembered events.

Keywords

PL

affective memory, time, sensation, personal experience, recollection

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2013

online

2015-07-21

Contributors

author

Anna Ledwina