À l’écoute de À la recherche du temps perdu Bruits, sons et voix dans le roman proustien

The extremely important references to painting, photography, optical boxes, and visual spectacles have often been underscored. Nevertheless, the hero of À la recherche du temps perdu considers reproduced images as a utilitarian instrument intended to stimulate voluntary memory. This text studies the external noises heard within, the body-voices in counterpoint to choral-voices, and the memory of mechanical sounds that make it possible to access the involuntary memory that is so precious to the narrator.