Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century literature, literature and philosophy and contemporary cultural criticism. Her publications include Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton; "La Transgression et le rêve de la théorie" in De Tel Quel à L'Infini; and "Maurice Barrès et la poétique de l'Identité" in Revue des Sciences Humaines (2000).

The sensual prose of Suzanne Guerlac brings new life to Remembrance, grounded in a fascinating history of photographic art and creating unexpected connections with philosophers of the time. In an innovative way, Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life uses images to illustrate how the novelist draws his ideas from places where critics didn’t think to look:business cards, blurry snapshots, photographs of coins, pornographic images… An intellectually subversive, and exhilarating book.

• 1.IntroductionPart I: The Grandmother: Habit, Death and Photography2.The Double Work of Habit3.The Intermittent Photograph4.Camera eyes: The Productive Estrangement of Mechanical VisionPart II: Albertine Breaks the Frame5. Albertine Emerges from a Blurry Photograph6. Making Memories (Bergson, not Benjamin).7. Art and Life: Improvisation 8. Photographic logics and genres 9. Breaking the frame: Writing the Time of Life Part III: Odette (and Swann) – Social Time: Photography and Money 10. Swann’s Gift: Class, Money and Photography11.The Facialization of Odette 11. Money13. Social Symptoms: Desire and Money (Simmel and Proust)14. The Two Fables of Proust’s Novel15.ConclusionBibliography

Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century literature, literature and philosophy and contemporary cultural criticism. Her publications include Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton; "La Transgression et le rêve de la théorie" in De Tel Quel à L'Infini; and "Maurice Barrès et la poétique de l'Identité" in Revue des Sciences Humaines (2000).

The sensual prose of Suzanne Guerlac brings new life to Remembrance, grounded in a fascinating history of photographic art and creating unexpected connections with philosophers of the time. In an innovative way, Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life uses images to illustrate how the novelist draws his ideas from places where critics didn’t think to look:business cards, blurry snapshots, photographs of coins, pornographic images… An intellectually subversive, and exhilarating book.

• 1.IntroductionPart I: The Grandmother: Habit, Death and Photography2.The Double Work of Habit3.The Intermittent Photograph4.Camera eyes: The Productive Estrangement of Mechanical VisionPart II: Albertine Breaks the Frame5. Albertine Emerges from a Blurry Photograph6. Making Memories (Bergson, not Benjamin).7. Art and Life: Improvisation 8. Photographic logics and genres 9. Breaking the frame: Writing the Time of Life Part III: Odette (and Swann) – Social Time: Photography and Money 10. Swann’s Gift: Class, Money and Photography11.The Facialization of Odette 11. Money13. Social Symptoms: Desire and Money (Simmel and Proust)14. The Two Fables of Proust’s Novel15.ConclusionBibliography