Marcel Proust in the Light of William James

Download or read book Marcel Proust in the Light of William James written by Marilyn M. Sachs and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although William James was a significant presence in Paris at the dawn of the 20th century, his psychological and philosophical theories well known, any role he played in the gestation of Marcel Proust’s ground-breaking novel À la recherche du temps perdu has been neglected by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic—until now. Much of what made Proust’s novel so startlingly original stems from James’s writings, which were available to Proust in French translation.