Hägglund, Martin.

Dying for Time : Proust, Woolf, Nabokov. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (208 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Of Chronolibido -- 1. Memory: Proust -- 2. Trauma: Woolf -- 3. Writing: Nabokov -- 4. Reading: Freud, Lacan, Derrida -- Conclusion: Binding Desire -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hägglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.

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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,-1899-1977.-Ada.
Proust, Marcel,-1871-1922.-Ā la recherche du temps perdu.
Woolf, Virginia,-1882-1941.-Mrs. Dalloway.
Desire in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Time in literature.


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