Fascinated with end-of-the-century physiognomy, Marcel Proust collected photographs of faces throughout his life. In turn, his writing grappled with what he took to be the dilemma of the face. In this lecture, Anca traces the development of the character of Odette in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, who is endowed with a “new, personal style of face .” The text describes a process of facialization as a mode of self-invention, akin to what Mina Loy, in another modernist experiment with the face, calls “auto-facial-construction.” Thus reinvented, Odette is the only character in the novel who does not age. Time, memory, and face form a modernist conceptual constellation. If, in Walter Benjamin’s reading of Proust, the face functions as a “handle of memory,” Anca argues that the paradigmatic object of memory retrieval for Proust is the face. The Keynote is delivered as part of Figurements: A Symposium on Literature and the Face.  About the speakerAnca Parvulescu is the author of three books: Laughter: Notes on a Passion (MIT Press, 2010); The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2014); and, with Manuela Boatcă, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Parvulescu’s articles have been published in PMLA, New Literary History, Critical Inquiry, Literature Compass, Interventions, Camera Obscura. Her work has been funded by the ACLS, the Huntington Library, the American Councils for International Education, the McDonnell Academy, and the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St Louis. She has received the Outstanding Mentor Award and the Miriam Bailin Prize for Teaching.Parvulescu is currently at work on two book projects: Modernist Faces: Physiognomy and Facial Form argues that contemporary technologies of facial recognition embed a form of the face inherited from physiognomy, which was both reproduced and challenged by modernist authors. An article from this project, “The Biography of a Face: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,” appeared in Journal of Modern Literature. EnquiriesPlease send your enquiries via figurementssymposium@gmail.com. If you have any support requirements in order to participate fully, please contact us via scc-events@unimelb.edu.au. Image credit: Self-portrait by Pauline Boty (1958), fragment.

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