Contre-Jour, Contra-Proust

[Markekohut]

It is also true, in the beyond-binary way great fiction works, that on recreating his past via his memory on the pages of Remembrance, Proust lives in that time again. And we do. 
So to speak, embracing all ironies. 

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On Jul 27, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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