Proust Reinterpreted:Can Proust's Account of Odour-cued Autobiographical Memory Recall Really be Investigated? A Reply to Jellinek

摘要

Odours have long been believed to evoke particularly powerful autobiographical memories,an effect that has been labelled the Troust phenomenon'.The phenomenon is so named because of the well-known literary anecdote reported by Proust (1913)at the beginning of his novel,A la recherche du temps perdu,wherein his autobiographical memory is productively stimulated by an olfactory experience.Jellinek has recently contributed an insightful and scholarly analysis of the relevant passages from Proust's writings with reinter-pretations and improvements in the translation that,although subtle,convey a greater sense of the evocative and powerful experience that Proust reported.