This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...

Marcel Proust knew how to write fashion. A fashionable dress makes a woman, and vice versa; gorgeous, elegant woman her fashionable. The outfits of the best-dressed women in Parisian society are at one with their beautiful owners. As result, description fine clothing Proust’s novel “In Search Lost Time” (A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu) is much more than just accurate recreation various codes pop...

Jean-Yves Tadie, curatore dell’edizione della Recherche per Gallimard («Bibliotheque de la Pleiade» 1987-1989), ripercorre l’epopea biografica e letteraria dello scrittore francese attraverso raccolta revisione di alcune prefazioni alcuni discorsi tenuti in occasione convegni conferenze sul tema («Note sur l’edition», p. 11). Calate nella sua esperienza lettore studioso, «Preface» (pp. 13-26) «...