Proust et la photographie : La Résurrection de Venise
Paris: Arachneed, 2009. With Signed Card. Hardcover. Photographic grey boards; white lettering. 112 pp. with occasional bw photos. Small card with note (in French), signed by author. NF. Item #160014
ISBN: 9782952930222
Unpublished letters by Marcel Proust with watercolors, engravings and daguerreotypes of Venice by John Ruskin. "Proust and the photograph was written (in 1982) against Roland Barthes' Clear Room, against the definition of photography as a "fascinating and funereal enigma" of mourning and melancholy, against the literary and aesthetic interpretation of photography. Jean-François Chevrier proposes an analogy between the involuntary memory, at the origin of the literary vocation of the author of La Recherche, and the unconscious mechanisms at work in photography. A second set is added to the central reminiscence of La Recherche, the baptistery of Saint Mark, entitled "The Resurrection of Venice", consisting of fragments, details extracted from the works: a Proust draft that explicates the phenomenon "Chemical" of reminiscence; A sequence of sketches, watercolors and daguerreotypes of Venice by the English art historian John Ruskin; A letter sent by Proust in 1903 to Illan de Casa Fuerte, staying in Venice with his mother. Jean-François Chevrier enters this network of correspondence, and emphasizes the characteristic place of the letter in the elaboration of a writing which, in 1903, "is agitated in the darkness". - "Google-Translated" from the publisher's web site.
OCLC: 488684210
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