Catherine Colomb’s VISION OF TIME: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf

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Tamar Barbakadze

Catherine Colomb’s VISION OF TIME: in Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf he

PETER LANG

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The Aesthetics of Time & the Poetics of Memory in

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25.1. Association. Re nec animes 89

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Time in Colomb, Proust & Woolf: In Dialogue with the

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4.6.2 The body as an actualization of the durée

4:6:3 The: Durée of Experience...

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Acknowledgements

My heartfelt thanks to Professor Gilles Philippe for his invaluable and unparalleled supervision; he has kindly agreed to follow the development of my doctoral thesis in its middle phase. His exceptional guidance and encouragement were precious for seeing this project through to the end. I am grateful to Professor Peter Schnyder, who first introduced me to the work of Catherine Colomb during my master’s years at the Université de Haute-Alsace. I would also like to thank Professor Valérie Cossy for her supervision and helpful comments on the manuscript at an early stage of my doctoral studies. I have been writing this thesis in the memory of my grandmother, the poet Tamar Makhatadze and my teachers Maro Dzneladze, Lamara Amirgulova and Prof. Ramaz Tchilaia who have inspired my passion for art and literature since my early years as a student.

I am deeply grateful to the Jury members: Dr. Sara Sullam, Professor Jérôme David, and Dr. Ilaria Vidotto, for reading my manuscript in its final stage; their valuable expertise and suggestions stimulated me to better my research work.

My thanks to Professor Ekaterina Velmezova for dealing with the range of issues that arose throughout my thesis work and for acting as the chairperson of the public thesis defense. I am equally grateful to Professor Christine Le Quellec and Dr. Cyrille François for generously accepting to act as the Faculty experts.

I gratefully acknowledge the Federal Commission for Scholarships, Erna Hamburger Foundation, and the Société Académique Vaudoise, which offered research funding for this project. My thanks to the Centre for Research in French-Swiss Literature for authorizing me to read the unpublished work on and by Catherine Colomb.

Finally, my thanks to Aline Pedrazzini, Camille Schaer, and Sämi Ludwig for their helpful comments on the manuscript and Suzanne Jakimovski, Armel Kemajou, Teona Kurtsikashvili, Natela Avtandilova, Jana Konstantinova, Bobana Zuvic, Steffen Frank, and Younés Mouhib for advice and encouragement throughout. My special thanks to my mother Dali, my father Otari, and my brother Beka for their support and childcare, and my son Sergio for not minding the many days spent without him to work on this thesis.

Abbreviations

AROO

La Recherche

MD

Remembrance

A Room of Ones Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf. (London: Penguin Books, 2004.)

Chateaux en enfance (1945) by Catherine Colomb, in TCC (2019: 723-909.)

The Diary of Virginia Woolf (1915-1941), (ed.) Anne Olivier Bell. 5 vols. (London: The Hogarth Press, 1977-1984.) Vol. 1, 2 & 3.

Les Esprits de la Terre (1953) by Catherine Colomb, in TCC (2019: 949-1108.)

Suzanne Pérusset’s interview with Catherine Colomb for the radio program ‘Semaine littéraire’ (1962), ‘Catherine Colomb, Personnages comme sortis du brouillard’ Broadcasted on RTS (3 April 2018).

The Letters of Marion Reymond Colomb to Lady Ottoline Morrell. A manuscript from Ottoline Morrell Collection 1882-1946. Colomb, Marion Reymond, (in French) 1913- 1927. Held by Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.

References to A la recherche du temps perdu are to the Pléiade edition in four volumes, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié (Paris: Gallimard, 1987-1989). In the text, a roman numeral indicates the volume.

Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf. (London, Paris: Albatros, 1947.)

English translations are taken from: I. Remembrance of Things Past, tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Vol.

1. (New York: Vintage books - Random House, 1982.); II.

The Guermantes Way. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff.

New York: The Modern Library, 1925; III. Sodom and Gomorrah. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Revised by D. J. Enright. New York: The Modern Library, 1993; IV. Time Regained, tr. Stephen Hudson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931.

The Spirits TCC TA

TL

Abbreviations

Les Esprits de la Terre | The Spirits of the Earth, tr. John Taylor. (London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2016.)

The complete works by Catherine Colomb: Tout Catherine Colomb, (ed.) Daniel Maggetti. (Genève: Zoé, 2019.)

Le Temps des Anges (1962). By Catherine Colomb, in TCC (2019: 1137-1317.)

To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf. (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1992).