http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/2009/05/07/a-proustian-moment-at-mont-st-michel/ Connecting the World Through Travel Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/2009/05/07/a-proustian-moment-at-mont-st-michel/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Martin Pearson Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:45:24 +0000 http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/?p=2776#comment-57 This is a wonderful description of a visit to Mont-St. Michele but it is not really a Proustian moment. A Proustian moment is the evocation of past memories through a sensual experience which is related to them and proceeds involuntarily from this experience and not always spontaneously but sometimes almost painfully slowly as if from the depths of the subconscious (cf. la petite Madeleine and the slow emergence of his childhood memories of Combray).

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