Proust alludes to the unpresentable through time while Joyce does so through writing itself

Evidence

In Proust, what is being eluded as the price to pay for this allusion is the identity of consciousness, a victim to the excess of time (au trap de temps). But in Joyce, it is the identity of writing which is the victim of an excess of the book (au trap de livre) or of literature. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 506

Categorization

• QUESTION: The distinction between trau de temps and trau de livre is compressed — worth chasing how each author’s medium-specific excess produces allusion.
• XREF: connects to: Joyce’s writing makes the unpresentable perceptible in the signifier itself — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 508; Modernist literature works as a perception instrument whose form survives even rejected insights — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1839; Proust’s essayistic and static formal deficiencies generated an unprecedented rendering of time — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 59

Broader Connections

• Joyce’s writing makes the unpresentable perceptible in the signifier itself #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 508
• Modernist literature works as a perception instrument whose form survives even rejected insights #complicates (0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1839