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• W50581229 abstract "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 own hierarchy of values. In interpreting his story, like him, they privilege the experience of literary and artistic creation over and above the realms of social, historical, and sexual experience. Artistic and literary creation can restore and preserve the meaning of individual life; whereas, in these other forms of experience, as the narrator comes to realize, time is irrevocably squandered. In examining Proust's use of biological metaphors, I will go even further here and argue that Proust's duality, the dual nature of identity in Proust determined according to the split condition of temporality and atemporality, not only requires duplicity but limits and effaces it by exposing within it a form of identity that, more than inaccessible, is unknowable because it is simultaneously multiple and undifferentiated. As a counterpoint to acceptance of the Proustian aesthetic, astute readers and critics of the Recherche all note the preponderance of social, historical, and sexual experience in this fictional record of an individual life and quite justifiably conclude that Proust was one of the greatest social historians of his time. In this too, critics and readers are preempted by the Proustian narrator's own observations to the effect that without the long evenings wasted at insipid social gatherings over the course of a lifetime, without the painfully developed and aborted sexual relationship of several years, without participation in and lengthy reflection on current historical events and trends, there would be no cumulative experience through and against which the actions of involuntary memory and artistic creation could preserve and affirm the essential elements of a human life. To paraphrase simply, without time lost, there can be no time regained. Still, the impression remains that the social, cultural and historic al aspects of Proust's work are secondary to the narrator's theory of literary creation and its essentializing, Platonic, idealist aesthetic. (2) I am not suggesting that critics as eminent and insightful as Genette, Blanchot, Deleuze, or Shattuck are wrong to emphasize the privileged rhetoric of temporality, or the hermeneutic of artistic reception and creation in Proust's work. However, in concentrating on the rhetoric of memory, temporality, and literary creation in the development of the Recherche, it is easy to marginalize the preponderant role of social and sexual life in the personal record and to neglect one of the most essential metaphorical registers underlying the work. (3) Proust's selective use of biological metaphors symbiotically links the record of individual life to the realm of collective experience in a thematically coherent fashion. (4) Proust's biological metaphors undercut the narrator's claims about the superiority of authentic artistic experience and its spiritual, nonmaterial essence. Certain metaphors accomplish this goal by assimilating cognitive actions to subconscious organic processes; others threaten radically to transform the concept of individual identity and experience that the artwork is intended to salvage and preserve. In this paper, I will classify and analyze biological metaphors in the Recherche in the following order: zoological metaphors that describe certain characters, botanical metaphors that allegorize sexual behavior as an involuntary communicative process, and cellular metaphors for the collective political and historical community. …" @default.
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