Critique littéraire, écrivain, essayiste, photographe, Martin de Haan est aussi, et avant tout, ambas­sa­­deur la traduction littéraire. Tout au long sa carrière, il n’a cessé souligner le rôle essentiel du traducteur qui, selon lui, a longtemps été négligé par politique culturelle éditoriale. Il traduit une quarantaine d’ouvrages littérature française en néerlandais. Figurent dans bibliographi...

Abstract This essay proposes the theory of multiple simultaneous temporalities as a constitutive feature global modernism. It spotlights varieties heterogeneous time—outside but alongside homogeneous empty time clocks and calendars—in modernist literature. These overlapping replace linear succession past, present, future with principle nonteleology. The these works analogize modernity. Thus tem...

In this paper we aim, by opening up to exploration the possible definitions or aspects of concept image, demonstrate that state emotion and truth described Gilles Deleuze as ideal essence signifiers art is in fact manifested image. As samples visual culture embodiement conceptualized through literature Deleuze’s book Proust Signs, employ critical close analysis Orhan Pamuk’s Museum Innocence Cu...

—In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust P because chrysanthemums bloom well into the autumn and come in an array of colors and varieties, these hardy flowers have inspired poets, writers, and artists for millennia. French Impressionist artist Claude Monet celebrated this flower in a series of four still-life paintings in 1897, including Chrysanthemum, 1897, selected for this mo...

Marcel Proust, the celebrated early twentieth century French writer, suffered from severe bronchial asthma his entire life, eventually succumbing to pneumonia. In 1900, he wrote: “An attack of asthma of unbelievable violence and tenacity – such is the depressing balance sheet of my night, which it obliged me to spend on my feet in spite of the early hour at which I got up yesterday.” In the twe...

Marcel Proust's “In Search of Lost Time” had a very significant and lasting influence on both the thinking artistic practice Lydia Ginzburg. It is no coincidence that legend her attempt to write “Proustian” novel proved so enduring. No less important was problem “big text,” duration created by narrative's duration. However, “removal” “fictitiousness” “fiction” narrative — possibility viewing si...

Russell Epstein’s essay (2004) is original, ambitious, and usefully speculative; he brings neurocognitive psychology together with the usually remote disciplines of aesthetics and literature. The aestheticians will probably welcome the help, because ‘‘aesthetics’’ covers a very broad domain, and for millennia there has been no consensus on any aspect of it, not even on the most basic points. Th...