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Richard Moran on “Proust and the Limits of the Will.”

Fri, Nov 13, 2015 @ 12 pm2 pm

PROUSTFEST, Part 2: Harvard University Professor of Philosophy Richard Moran on “Proust and the Limits of the Will.”

‘Involuntary memory’ is the most well-known theme of all in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. In this talk, Moran, who has written on and taught Proust for many years, teases out what the importance of its being ‘involuntary’ could be in the context of the novel.