Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov

by Martin Hägglund

Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time--whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin H gglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066324
• ISBN13: 9780674066328
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"