ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the photographic forms of memory and perception laid out on the opening pages, to then look at possible ways of their transposition, or translation, into the autobiographical text. Once more photographic metaphors describe the failure of memory when they are employed to depict the act of remembering as conscious duplication of reality, and illustrate a success when they refer to the process of developing unconscious memory images. The aim of Marcel Proust's 'ecriture de vie' is clearly not chronological, horizontal, flat mimesis nor is it the accurate capture of isolated sensations, both of which he finds embodied by photographic representation. That both can only be achieved out of an opposition to photographic representation and photographic mediality becomes even more obvious when we turn towards the first example of the narrator's attempt to capture and to articulate his impressions in writing.
