Biological metaphor in 'A la recherche du temps perdu.'(Critical Essay) From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Gollrad, Gareth Evan | COPYRIGHT 2002 West Virginia University, Department of Foreign Languages. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Many of the great critical works on Proust's chef d'oeuvre focus on the primary themes of time, memory, and the spiritual preservation and renewal made possible by the work of art. (1) These studies examine the narrator's personal and highly reflective pursuit of meaning in his life that would transcend the limitations of temporality and mortality. In analyzing the rhetoric of memory and temporality in 'A la recherche du temps perdu,' they tend to reproduce the Proustian narrator's...

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