Contre-Jour, Contra-Proust

[Markekohut]

Reading Lydia Davis's intro to her translation of Swann's Way; encountering a few overarching remarks by critics and scholars---Proust's theme is the redemption of life by memory in art; Jameson saying really, Remembrance is about how one lives life in retrospect and rereading the beginning, this surely-controversial thought came to me: 

One of Against the Day's overarching themes is Contra that.....that it is only in time itself that we are " redeemed"....pervades other Pynchon too.....

I could go on but many who don't believe this have stopped reading....

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