This book explores the work of two major twentieth-century artists by placing them in critical proximity. Marcel Proust s A la recherche du temps perdu and Jean-Luc Godard s Histoire(s) du cinema connect in ways that the author accounts for through the agency of cinema and its theorisation. Cinema, the art form that characterises the twentieth century, provides the tools with which to recognise Proust s and Godard s shared poetic enterprise and the modernist underpinning that leads, in both cases, to the simultaneous rejection of and yearning for artistic transcendence. Rather...