Grandmother : habit, death and photography. The double work of habit -- Involuntary memory and involuntary forgetting -- The intermittent photograph -- Camera eyes : the productive estrangement of mechanical vision -- The photographer as a stranger : dégonflage -- Albertine breaks the frame. Albertine emerges from a blurry photograph -- Making memories -- Déja vu (Bergson) -- Memory : Bergson vs. Freud (and Walter Benjamin) -- Art and life : improvisation -- The time of the latent image -- Memory is a photographer -- Photographic logics and genres -- Breaking the frame : writing the time of life -- Desire to write -- Odette (and Swann); Social time : photography and money -- Swann's gift : class, money and photography -- The facialization of Odette -- The social education of the face -- Immortal youth -- Money -- Odette and Swann are made for each other -- Social symptoms : desire and money (Simmel and Proust) -- Money, truth, and narrative form -- The two fables of Proust's novel.
Summary:
"In her new book, Suzanne Guerlac interrogates standard interpretations of Remembrance of Things Past and argues that Proust does not record the dead time of recollection, but the effervescent time of becoming and the real as it was described Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Georg Simmel. By placing Proust's novel within a web of money and contemporary popular culture like commercial photography, pornography, the regulation of prostitution and the Dreyfus Affair, Guerlac reveals that Proust's motivation was not the recuperation of lost time, but the adventure of living in the present moment on an individual and social level"-- Provided by publisher.
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