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by Gilda Davidian

 

From Proust’s Swann’s Way, the first volume to his seven-part In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past) which introduces the idea of involuntary memory (sometimes also called Proustian memory). I like thinking of this notion of place in direct relationship to a point and time in our memory instead of as a physical location. I also like thinking about involuntary memory, that thing that happens when  you touch something or see or smell something that triggers a memory, out of the blue.

Find out more:
Why Proust? And Why Now? LINK 
Proust: In Our Time, LINK