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Tables of Contents for Proust's Way
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Diagrams
xiii
Introduction: A Sense of Life
xv
Biographical Resume on Proust
xxi
Note on Editions and Translations
xxiii
The Work and Its Author
1
22
Obstacles and Inducements
1
5
The Life of an Enfant Nerveux
6
13
An Overdetermined Universe
19
4
How to Read a Roman-Fleuve
23
26
Practical Matters
23
6
The Elements of the Story
29
9
The Plot
38
7
Verisimilitude and Homosexuality
45
4
The Comic Vision
49
22
Four Scenes
49
11
A Matter of Temperament: The Opening Stumble
60
4
The Uses of the Comic
64
7
Proust's Complaint
71
28
False Scents
71
8
From Places to People: The ``Infirmity in My Nature''
79
3
Soul Error
82
5
The Paradox of Consciousness
87
12
Proust's Binoculars: Memory and Recognition
99
38
Optics and Vision
99
8
Happiness and Memory
107
17
Recognitions
124
13
Art and Idolatry
137
24
Art
138
14
Idolatry
152
9
The Structure of Sheer Length
161
16
Finding a Form
161
11
Lost and Found
172
5
Continuing Disputes
177
48
Too Much of Proust?
177
8
The Challenge of Translation
185
7
Filming the Unfilmable
192
14
Time and Space
206
6
Intelligence versus Sensibility: Proust's Wager and ``Experimental Faith''
212
13
Reading for Your Life
225
24
CODA: Proust's ``Mysterious Laws of Thought''
233
16
APPENDIXES
249
20
I. The Wonders of Optics
251
6
II. Table of the Moments Bienheureux
257
8
III. The Opening Sentence
265
4
Selected Bibliography
269
2
Acknowledgments
271
2
Index
273