Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust

by Maurizio Ferraris

In this collection of essays, Maurizio Ferraris explores the world portrayed in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. He ponders how memory is tied to self-identification and knowledge; how the passage of time is only perceptible after it has passed; and how life, ultimately, is accurately portrayed in literature in ways that were seen as inconceivable in our youth. Running throughout the book is the sense that memory is all we are; we are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004422552
• ISBN13: 9789004422551
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.4"