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Author(s) -
Jacob Ulrich
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
passage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-7797
pISSN - 0901-8883
DOI - 10.7146/pas.v30i73.21627
Subject(s) - bedroom , narrative , sleep (system call) , perception , reading (process) , psychology , structuring , humanities , linguistics , aesthetics , philosophy , history , computer science , political science , neuroscience , law , archaeology , operating system
Jacob Ulrich: “The Time and Space of Sleep: Reading Sleep in In Search of Lost Time”This article examines the significance and structuring function of sleep and sleep related instances in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Through close readings of narrative conceptions of time in the ouverture the article shows how descriptions of the narrator’s sleep both destabilize the narrative and form a narrative pattern to which the overall structure of the novel adheres. Secondly, the article focuses on spatiality and sleep, particularly the narrator’s bedroom, which appears as a privileged place where certain perceptual conditions are displayed and experimented with. Descriptions of sleep in the novel thus form a boundary or threshold that negotiates between inner and outer modes of perception. The article concludes by addressing, in more general terms, the potential problems involved when studying ‘sleep and literature’.