John Attridge Bio John Attridge is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is co-editor, with Helen Rydstrand, of Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art (Bloomsbury, 2019). Contributions “la vaste rumeur d’autrefois”: Noise, Memory, and Mediation in À la recherche du temps perdu Peer Reviewed From the Print Journal © 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press The narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu is exquisitely sensitive to noise. We know this in part through the testimony of his closest companions, some of whom express concern at different moments in the novel about their friend’s susceptibility to auditory disturbance. In Le Côté de Guermantes, for instance, Saint-Loup recommends a hotel at Doncières because it is “assez adapté à votre hyperesthésie auditive” (“more or less adapted to your over... Tags: sound
“la vaste rumeur d’autrefois”: Noise, Memory, and Mediation in À la recherche du temps perdu Peer Reviewed From the Print Journal © 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press The narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu is exquisitely sensitive to noise. We know this in part through the testimony of his closest companions, some of whom express concern at different moments in the novel about their friend’s susceptibility to auditory disturbance. In Le Côté de Guermantes, for instance, Saint-Loup recommends a hotel at Doncières because it is “assez adapté à votre hyperesthésie auditive” (“more or less adapted to your over... Tags: sound
