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Proust

Proust
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, published in 1930, is an aesthetic and epistemological manifesto that is more concerned with Beckett's influences and preoccupations than with its ostensible subject.

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“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

Samuel Beckett book Proust

Proust (1957), p. 4

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