Remembering and the Sound of Words

Remembering and the Sound of Words is a major new study of four of modern literature's most important writers - and the first serious attempt to account for complex sound effects in prose. Mallarm, Proust, Joyce, and Beckett are all masters of complex musical prose, and all four are fascinated by the powers of memory. Through close readings of their writing, which reveal the way in which all four use key-words and sound effects to mimic the processes of memory, Adam Piette provides answers to two important but neglected questions - how do we respond to poetic prose; and how do writers represent the subtle forces of memory.