This work focused on three major themes of contemporary novel: Personal Identity, Temporality, writing. These three themes which are closely interconnected are clearly present in the novel of French writer Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. ...
This work focused on three major themes of contemporary novel: Personal Identity, Temporality, writing. These three themes which are closely interconnected are clearly present in the novel of French writer Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Our present analysis is based on the observation that every human experience it intelligible only when expressed (configure´e) through the process of 〈Relating〉. The problem of personal identity, however complex it is, may be dealt with more concretely within the context of narrativity and writing. For Paul Ricoeur with whom we agree, personal identity is not an abstract category but it can be built through a long personal experience, especially through the permanence of time.
Such realization of personal identity through time can be expressed by the art of writing. In creating the test world, which differs from daily life, literary art, as an aesthetic process, uses a 〈medium〉 which can communicate the various themes of temporality, narrativity and research of the true self.