“A Small Sample of Materialist Analysis": A Study of Images between Marcel Proust and Walter Benjamin
Abstract
The work of Marcel Proust constitutes a privileged place for Walter Benjamin’s thought, since it is where he finds the now of historical cognizability, that bifacial instant between sleep and wakefulness where truth flashes forth the guarantee offered by modern thought, turning it into tiny splinters. Through a detailed analysis of the presence of the image in Proust's work and its implications for Walter Benjamin's reading and writing, this article aims to read, in a Proustian materialist analysis, a condition of possibility for Benjamin’s critique of the historicist continuum dominant in his time.
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