Remembrance of telephony past: what Proust made of the phone
For Marcel Proust, the telephone gave distance a sensory form and allowed new ways to experience absence more profoundly
by John Attridge
John Ashridge is a senior lecturer in English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has co-edited the collections Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust, and Deception and Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Written by John Attridge