La contemporaneidad de lo mítico y la mirada extrañada Sobre las lecturas de Proust de Theodor W. Adorno y Siegfried Kracauer

Abstract

M. Proust’s narrative work has not only been the subject of reflections, but also a constant point of reference for the theoretical and critical reflections of Kracauer and Adorno. In the first, from the essays on the Weimar Republic to the late treatises Theory of film and History. The last things before the last, the French writer’s fiction provides important elements for a conceptualization of the historical subject and for an exploration of late modernity and its most characteristic artistic media. In Adorno, the incidence of Proust is noticed not only in the various essays included in the Notes to literature, but also in more strictly philosophical works, such as Aesthetic theory or the Lectures on negative dialectic. The purpose of this ar-ticle is to relate the interpretations of Proust developed by Kracauer and Adorno in order to show their affinities, but also, and above all, their divergences, placing them at the same time in relation to their theoretical evolution.