Digital, humain: Proust au vingt-et-unième siècle

Digital reading is not just a matter of new media; it is a new cognitive activity that Proust’s writing seems to have anticipated. Our goal is to demonstrate that the “branching and responding text” that was announced by Ted Nelson in Litary Machines corresponds in its very logic and patterns to the new writing style that is to be observed in Proust’s novel. We are going to focus on a specific semantic field (sensorial processes and experience) and analyze some passages from the Recherche, in order to unveil its organic ‘connectivity’ and its affinity with hypertext as a new approach to knowledge.