Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”Stephen Bann is professor emeritus of the history of art at Bristol University.

• Introduction Note on the TranslationPrefacePart I. Proust and Time Embodied12Part II. In Search of Madeleine Part III. Apologia for Metaphor1 ‘To Draw Forth From the Shadow What I Had Merely Felt’2 Omnipresent AnalogyPart IV. Proust as Philosopher1 ‘Ideas Come to Us as the Successors to Griefs’2 Being as Will and Society as HypnosisNotesIndex

One of the most insightful and beautifully written explorations of the Proustian metaphor that exist in either French or English.