Catherine Colomb's Vision of Time: In Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf

This monograph draws on the Swiss French writer Catherine Colomb's modernist, avant-gardist and poetical representation of themes of central contemporary relevance including time, memory and perception. Reading her work next to Proust's and Woolf's writings and in light of the broader culture of her time make Colomb a major novelist of our age.

This monograph is the first substantial contribution to the study of the Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb's dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf as well as to time and memory studies. The framework and approach devised to examine Colomb's oeuvre contribute to unravelling some of its complexities, not only in its curving style, ephemeral, and sequence-defying narrative, but also in its literary engagement with the science and philosophy that shaped modernity and proposed new ways of thinking time, knowledge, and the human experience. This thesis ultimately allows us to gain insight into the originality of Colombian time experience, memory, and point-of-view representations, transcending the alleged influence of her iconic predecessors.

Autorentext
Tamar Barbakadze has obtained her PhD in Arts at the University of Lausanne. She has published on the writings of Catherine Colomb, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. Her scholarly credentials in French and English draw on a range of questions including novelistic time, memory and perception, cultural trans

Inhalt
Contents - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - I. Time and Narrative in Châteaux En Enfance - II. The Aesthetics of Time & The Poetics of Memory in Colomb: In Dialogue with Proust - III. The Aesthetics of Time & The Poetics of Perception in Colomb: In Dialogue with Woolf - IV. Time in Colomb, Proust & Woolf: In Dialogue with the Air Du Temps - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index