Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
Proust's 1913 Swann's Way — first volume of In Search of Lost Time — involuntary memory and the madeleine
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann) (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
Central — lost and recovered time.
Space
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
The Combray-childhood and Paris-society spaces.
Matter
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
The embodied memory-bearer (madeleine, taste).
Observer
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
The remembering narrator.
Energy
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
Energies of involuntary memory.
Information
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)
Foundational modernist literary framework on memory and time.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Swann's Way foundational for 20th-c. modernist literature and the philosophy of memory.