Les aventures de la mémoire involontaire (Rousseau, Proust, Wagner)

• Authors: Fulka Josef

Title variants

EN

ADVENTURES OF INVOLUNTARY MEMORY (ROUSSEAU, PROUST, WAGNER)

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In the present study, the author focuses on the phenomenon of involuntary memory, as treated, most famously, in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. He, nonetheless, attempts to trace a “pre-history” of the notion in question by making reference to one particular passage to Rousseau’s Confessions that perhaps does not name the phenomenon of involuntary memory in an explicit manner, but certainly does treat a concrete experience that seems strongly reminiscent of Proust’s later and more sophisticated analyses. In the second part of the paper, he attempts to show that literature is not the exclusive domain in which involuntary memory becomes a crucial topic. He presents a “musical” analogy of involuntary memory by comparing Proust’s writing to the Wagnerian notion of leitmotif.

Keywords

FR

Marcel Proust; Richard Wagner; la mémoire involontaire; musique; la littérature française

EN

Marcel Proust; Richard Wagner; involuntary memory; music; French literature

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: XXX
• Issue: Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature
• Pages: 92-100

Contributors

author

Fulka Josef

• Institut de Philosophie, L’Académie des Sciences, Prague

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2020.3.7