
Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust
The Book Club
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Is the Novel a Novelist?
Pruse: Novel is quite straightforward in its treatment of time, that it moves narrative time dit moves forward in a very straightforward, ordinary way. But what's characterized by is a sort of loops and digressions embedded in that. These two conceptual phrasings in the novel are very, very interesting, quint essentially christian, and call for a lot of analysis and cussion. Pruse: The typically modernest way with pruse, way with what he calls the form of time and the order of time, is to see him as constantly disrupting it and swerving and looping.
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