How does it come about that a novel containing thousands of moral statements is seldom critically examined from a moral point of view? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Bowie presents Proust's narrator as a moral theorist obsessively concerned with the definition of virtue and vice. Bowie argues not just that the moral language of Proust is sufficiently strange and provocative to replay close study but that "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" has a distinctive moral architecture which deserves to be included among the wonders of the Proustian world. Bowie's account of Proustian virtue, especially as it appears in the culminating pages of "Le Temps Retrouve", casts a new light upon the much discussed themes of memory and desire in the novel.
- ISBN10 0199522650
- ISBN13 9780199522651
- Publish Date 1 July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 November 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 28
- Language English