Living on the threshold of this disturbing epoch, Proust managed to put
together the shattered fragments in the form of the life of his narrator, who
experiences love and society in accordance with a number of themes which
we may think of as archaic, but are in fact our very own, because of their
polarized and discontinuous logic. For Proust, time is to be psychic time, and
consequently the factor which determines our bodily life. I will argue that
time in fact persists as the only surviving imaginative value which can be used
by the novel to appeal to the whole community of readers.引自 Proust and Time Embodied
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