Mourning and Creativity in Proust

Anna Magdalena Elsner is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of French and the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London, UK. She completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK.

“Its lucid and nuanced discussion of the Proustian ethics of creation is part of what makes this book a valuable addition to the field of Proust studies and a pleasure to read.” (Synne Ytre Arne, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115 (3), July, 2020)

• Introduction: Melancholia's Afterlives.- Chapter 1: Time of death: Alterity.- Chapter 2: Mourning and the Uncanny Space.- Chapter 3: The Ethics of Creation.- Epilogue: Fidelity to the Intermittences.