Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

Over the past 30 years, the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks, with little recognition of their underlying similarities and the ways that each can learn from the other. Time Regained does not move from literature to cinema, but exists simultaneously in both fields. The 7 filmmakers selected here, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Raúl Ruíz, Wong Kar Wai, Stephen Daldry, and Paolo Sorrentino, are themselves also writers or people with literary training, and they produce a new type of world cinema thanks to their understanding of the world simultaneously through literature and film. In the process, their films produce new readings of literary texts that world literature studies wouldn't have been able to achieve with its own instruments.

Time Regained examines how filmmakers build on literature to reconfigure the world as a landscape of dreams and how they use film to reinvent the narrative techniques of the authors on whom they draw. The selected filmmakers draw inspiration from French surrealists, modernists Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Marguerite Yourcenar, and predecessors such as Dante and Cao Xueqin. In the process, these filmmakers cross the borders between film and literature, nation and world, dream and reality.

Author: Delia Ungureanu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 05/18/2023
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9798765103494

About the Author
Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature and Associate Professor of literary theory and comparative literature in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is the author of From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Poetica Apocalipsei: Razboiul cultural în revistele literare românesti (1944-1947) (2012).


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