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Index
List of Diagrams
INTRODUCTION: A SENSE OF LIFE
Biographical Résumé on Proust
Note on Editions and Translations
I THE WORK AND ITS AUTHOR
Obstacles and Inducements
The Life of an Enfant Nerveux
An Overdetermined Universe
II HOW TO READ A ROMAN-FLEUVE
Practical Matters
The Elements of the Story
The Plot
Verisimilitude and Homosexuality
III THE COMIC VISION
Four Scenes
A Matter of Temperament: The Opening Stumble
The Uses of the Comic
IV PROUST’S COMPLAINT
False Scents
From Places to People: The “Infirmity in My Nature”
Soul Error
The Paradox of Consciousness
V PROUST’S BINOCULARS: MEMORY AND RECOGNITION
Optics and Vision
Happiness and Memory
Recognitions
VI ART AND IDOLATRY
Art
Idolatry
VII THE STRUCTURE OF SHEER LENGTH
Finding a Form
Lost and Found
VIII CONTINUING DISPUTES
Too Much of Proust?
The Challenge of Translation
Filming the Unfilmable
Time and Space
Intelligence versus Sensibility: Proust’s Wager and “Experimental Faith”
IX READING FOR YOUR LIFE
CODA: Proust’s “Mysterious Laws of Thought”
APPENDIXES
I. The Wonders of Optics
II. Table of the Moments Bienheureux
III. The Opening Sentence
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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