WTWO memoir extracts. Issue 1 (1st April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wheale, Nigel
• Is Part Of: Book 2.0. Volume 12:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 9
• Page End: 17
• Publication Date: 2022-04-01
• Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Publishers and publishing -- Periodicals; Book design -- Periodicals; Electronic publishing -- Periodicals; Books -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 070.5
• DOI: 10.1386/btwo_00057_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-8022

Abstract

Reading Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu again, always a completely immersive experience for me, I was struck again by the way in which the smallest details of that life become resonant, and make the text so eloquent, utterly involving a reader willing to give themselves up to the work. I was inspired to recall distant details of my own childhood in the West Midlands, and then of a period in a place that appears 'remote' from the mainland United Kingdom. These are two extracts from what will become a longer memoir, though not stretching to Proust's twelve luminous volumes.