Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust

Leonid Bilmes is an independent researcher based in Spain. His writing on contemporary literature and philosophy has appeared in Textual Practice, Philosophy Now and Los Angeles Review of Books. He has recently contributed a chapter to Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection, a collection edited by Garry L. Hagberg.

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Acknowledgements


Introduction: On seeing prose pictures


1 Proust’s way: Ekphrasis, memory, narrative


2 After Proust: By way of ironized nostalgia


3 Description and narration in Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor


4 Narration’s looming of the archive in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz


5 Retrospect, prospect and the fiction of the face in
Ben Lerner’s 10:04

6 Commemoration via intermedial lamination in Ali Smith’s
How to be both

7 Writing forgetting in Lydia Davis’s The End of the Story


Conclusion

Works Cited

Index