Viaje y reminiscencia en Marcel Proust — Clara Ramas San Miguel

The monographic exhibition on Hergé and his famous character Tintin, a symbol of the "traveler" in the popular imagination thanks to his adventures around the world, provides a fitting pretext for reflecting on the philosophical underpinnings of the idea of ​​travel in Western culture. The 'Philosophy and Travel' series seeks to elucidate the fundamental points of this philosophical meaning of the travel experience, from the mythical structure of Odysseus's journey, through the relationship between time and memory, to the political aspects involved in the metaphor of travel in the 20th century and in our present. Fundamental historical, anthropological, ethical, epistemological, and aesthetic questions emerge throughout this exploration. http://www.circulobellasartes.com/ In this lecture of the series, Clara Ramas San Miguel explores the meaning of travel through Marcel Proust's novel 'In Search of Lost Time,' that peculiar type of involuntary memory triggered by an accidental sensory impression. The Narrator's journey to Venice, which evokes memories of his childhood, his loves, and his mother, is itself the subject of a reminiscence in the climactic moment of the final volume, when the Narrator stumbles in a palace courtyard over two uneven tiles. From that point on, the Narrator reevaluates the meaning of travel as a means of accessing "lost time," but also of names, loves, and works of art; and even the very status of signs (Deleuze) or the function of literature (Bataille). Moderated by Rodrigo Castro.