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Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann)

Marcel Proust
1913 · French
Modernist novel · French modernist literature

Proust's 1913 Swann's Way — first volume of In Search of Lost Time — involuntary memory and the madeleine

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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 (Du côté de chez Swann)

Swann's Way foundational for 20th-c. modernist literature and the philosophy of memory.