Marcel Proust’un Kayıp Zamanın İzinde adlı romanında belleğin kurgulayıcı rolü üzerine bir değerlendirme

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the constructive role of the memory on the past in the novel of Search of Lost of Marcel Proust. The person creates his own story by reconstructing his past due to the constructive function of the memory; and that shows us that past is not inactive in an unchanging way. For that reason, the memory is perceived as an active and living memory. However, the memories of such memory are the screen memories; they are far from presenting the past as it had happened. In the heart of the memory model of Proust is the involuntary memory that presents the past as it had happened not as it had constructed. We aim to evaluate whether involuntary memory is an answer for the question of whether we can save the past for ourselves in a way that it maintains its existence on its own and protects itself, which is seen as a key of the Lost Time by the Proust.