Thursday, March 4, 2010

Architecture and Literature

This isn't particularly relevant for the way that we have been discussing the relationship of architecture and literature, but interesting nonetheless.

'As for Proust, number of his crucial "recollections" in A la Recherche... were provoked by architectural experience. But, more to the point, we read in the triumphant finale of the book, Time Regained, how he referred to "my labours as an architect" and the idea of "the edifice I had to construct".' - ideas of the individual's projected self-image within the collective being alluded to?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/colin-st-john-wilson--the-kindred-arts-of-literature-and-architecture-679017.html

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