Le plus impur des temps perdus De l’apprentissage à la réactualisation jubilatoire

Dealing first with the relationship with death that the Recherche and the book envisaged by the narrator have respectively, this article proposes to base the understanding of what this future book would be upon a threefold meaning of the syntagm temps perdu. This requires revisiting the link between time lost perceived as “time past/passed” and time lost as “time that one loses”—whose thoroughly extrinsic value, for Gilles Deleuze, lies in the education that it would eventually provide.