The delayed response

This article departs from the Proustian image of the door that opens in order to address the question about what lies on the other side of the threshold and about the status of the time and reality that the narrator regains at the end of In Search of Lost time. As we will argue, what awaits on the other side of the door refers neither to a mystical illumination nor to a state of contemplative meditation but to the expressive work of a type of responsive writing that renders visible the invisible.

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This article challenges the Proustian concept of the door and examines the significance of what lies beyond it in the context of In Search of Lost Time. It argues that the other side of the door is not associated with mystical enlightenment or contemplation, but rather represents a form of writing that brings the invisible into visibility.