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.