Empire of Desire: The Abolition of Time,Used

Empire of Desire: The Abolition of Time,Used

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Empire of Desire, the second volume of Thierry Hentschs epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition, completes the work he began in the first: Truth or Death. It traces western civilizations quest for immortality across a further four centuriesfrom Molire to Proust, by way of Voltaire and Rousseau, Goethe and Hegel, Melville and Joyceending in 1922, coincidentally the year Ulysses was published and Marcel Proust breathed his last.Truth or Death had revealed how the Biblical imperative of salvation gradually and systematically transferred the quest for immortality from the religious to the profane, as technoscience came to supplant God in the age of reason.Now, in Empire of Desire, Thierry Hentsch presents modern manfreed from the imperative of transcendenceas a creature who desires to desire, moving without cease from one object to another, in a state of selfimposed oblivion, the Western narrative tradition reaching its apotheosis with the work of Marcel Proust, in whose exquisitely crafted prose, desire has become the artists instrument of choicethe vivisectionists scalpel.Thierry Hentschs untimely death in 2005 has left us, as his generous bequest, a vivid, multifaceted literary testament. Proust, foreshadowing the title of the mortal bargain, Raconter et Mourir to tell the tale, and to diebrings Hentschs reading of the Western literary tradition full circle. Proust, in whose company despair can find no fingerhold, in whose company I learn with every passing day that literature is nothing more than life reflected upon, recaptured; that it is the expressionan expression that takes ones breath awayof those simple instants that poets have sought after since time out of mind, and whose fleeting yet powerful pleasure give us, for a spark of eternity, the feeling that we ourselves partake of the abolition of time.

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